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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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Competitive strategy is about being different. It means deliberately choosing a different set of activities to deliver a unique mix of value.
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Activity Choice Competition Deliver Different Unique
Strategy is choice. Strategy means saying no to certain kinds of things.
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Choice Decline Kind Strategy
Strategy is about making choices, trade-offs; it’s about deliberately choosing to be different.
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Choice Different Strategy Yourself
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
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
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
There’s a fundamental distinction between strategy and operational effectiveness.
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Effect Fundamental Operational Strategy
Finally, strategy must have continuity. It can’t be constantly reinvented.
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Constant Invention Strategy
Strategic thinking rarely occurs spontaneously.
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Occur Rare Strategy
A strategy delineates a territory in which a company seeks to be unique.
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Company Seek Strategy Territory Unique
Companies operating in urban communities have a tremendous ripple effect.
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Community Company Effect Urban
The underlying principles of strategy are enduring, regardless of technology or the pace of change.
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Change Endurance Pace Principle Technology
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
Operational effectiveness and strategy are both essential to superior performance.
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Effect Operational Performance Superior
Change brings opportunities. On the other hand, change can be confusing.
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Change Confusion Hands Opportunity

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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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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