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A target should go with every goal. A target is the value that defines success.

Michael Porter

The underlying principles of strategy are enduring, regardless of technology or the pace of change.
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Change Endurance Pace Principle Technology
A target should go with every goal. A target is the value that defines success.
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Definition Goal Success Target Value
The company without a strategy is willing to try anything.
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Company Ideas Try Willing
The chief strategist of an organization has to be the leader – the CEO.
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Leadership Organization Strategy
Strategy is about making choices, trade-offs; it’s about deliberately choosing to be different.
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Choice Different Strategy Yourself
You can’t be all things to all people.
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Be Yourself People Self Love
Operational effectiveness and strategy are both essential to superior performance.
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Effect Operational Performance Superior
The thing is, continuity of strategic direction and continuous improvement in how you do things are absolutely consistent with each other. In fact, they’re mutually reinforcing.
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Consistency Direction Each Other Improvement Strategy
Health care historically has been a very siloed field that’s organized around medical specialties – urology, cardiac surgery, and so forth – and around the supply of these specialty services. The patient is the ping-pong ball that moves from service to service.
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Health History Medicine Organization Patient Service
If your goal is anything but profitability – if it’s to be big, or to grow fast, or to become a technology leader – you’ll hit problems.
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Big Goal Leadership Problem Profit Yourself
Without a goal analytics is aimless and worthless.
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Aim Goal Wasted Worth
The essence of strategy is that you must set limits on what you’re trying to accomplish.
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Accomplishment Limitation Strategy Yourself
There’s a fundamental distinction between strategy and operational effectiveness.
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Effect Fundamental Operational Strategy
Strategy is choice. Strategy means saying no to certain kinds of things.
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Choice Decline Kind Strategy
Risk is a function of how poorly a strategy will perform if the ‘wrong’ scenario occurs.
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Function Performance Poor Risk Strategy Wrong
If all you’re trying to do is essentially the same thing as your rivals, then it’s unlikely that you’ll be very successful.
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Rival Success Try Yourself

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