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The ability to change constantly and effectively is made easier by high-level continuity.

Michael Porter

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
A strategy delineates a territory in which a company seeks to be unique.
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Company Seek Strategy Territory Unique
Billions are wasted on ineffective philanthropy. Philanthropy is decades behind business in applying rigorous thinking to the use of money.
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Business Money Philanthropy Thinking Time Wasted Time
Ultimately, health care fails the most basic test. It’s not organized around the needs of the patient.
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Basic Care Failure Health Need Patient
Strategic thinking rarely occurs spontaneously.
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Occur Rare Strategy
Finally, strategy must have continuity. It can’t be constantly reinvented.
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Constant Invention Strategy
Companies operating in urban communities have a tremendous ripple effect.
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Community Company Effect Urban
You can’t be all things to all people.
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Be Yourself People Self Love
Strategy is about setting yourself apart from the competition. It’s not a matter of being better at what you do – it’s a matter of being different at what you do.
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Better Competition Different Started Yourself
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
Technology has given us this wonderful opportunity to have low energy costs. We have to seize that, rather than keep debating and discussing and fighting over it.
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Cost Discussion Energy Fight Low Opportunity Technology Wonderful
Innovation is the central issue in economic prosperity.
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Economics Innovation Issues Prosperity
The best CEOs I know are teachers, and at the core of what they teach is strategy.
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Best Myself Strategy Teacher
The U.S. is facing a structural competitiveness problem that is leading to the weakest economy we have seen in generations.
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Competition Economy Face Generation Structure Weakness
Strategy is choice. Strategy means saying no to certain kinds of things.
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Choice Decline Kind Strategy
The purpose of the corporation must be redefined as creating shared value, not just profit per se. This will drive the next wave of innovation and productivity growth in the global economy.
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Creation Definition Economy Global Production Profit Purpose

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