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Sound strategy starts with having the right goal

Michael Porter

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
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
Operational effectiveness and strategy are both essential to superior performance.
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Effect Operational Performance Superior
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
Sound strategy starts with having the right goal
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Goal Right Sound Start
Companies operating in urban communities have a tremendous ripple effect.
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Community Company Effect Urban
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
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
In the vast majority of businesses, there is simply no such thing as “the best.”
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Best Business Majority Simplicity
The company without a strategy is willing to try anything.
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Company Ideas Try Willing
Change brings opportunities. On the other hand, change can be confusing.
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Change Confusion Hands Opportunity
Good leaders need a positive agenda, not just an agenda of dealing with crisis.
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Deal Goodness Leadership Need Positive
The underlying principles of strategy are enduring, regardless of technology or the pace of change.
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Change Endurance Pace Principle Technology
Efforts to preserve all industries will lower the national standard of living.
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Effort Live Lower National Preserve Standard
Strategic thinking rarely occurs spontaneously.
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Occur Rare Strategy

Sound strategy starts with having the right goal

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