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If a strategy meets a goal: It’s working. If a strategy meets a target: It’s a success.

Michael Porter

Operational effectiveness and strategy are both essential to superior performance.
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Effect Operational Performance Superior
The chief strategist of an organization has to be the leader – the CEO.
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Leadership Organization Strategy
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
Strategy is about making choices, trade-offs; it’s about deliberately choosing to be different.
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Choice Different Strategy Yourself
A target should go with every goal. A target is the value that defines success.
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Definition Goal Success Target Value
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
In the vast majority of businesses, there is simply no such thing as “the best.”
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Best Business Majority Simplicity
If a strategy meets a goal: It’s working. If a strategy meets a target: It’s a success.
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Goal Inspirational Strategy Success Work
You can’t be all things to all people.
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Be Yourself People Self Love
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
Finally, strategy must have continuity. It can’t be constantly reinvented.
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Constant Invention Strategy
Without a goal analytics is aimless and worthless.
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Aim Goal Wasted Worth
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
Companies operating in urban communities have a tremendous ripple effect.
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Community Company Effect Urban
Change brings opportunities. On the other hand, change can be confusing.
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Change Confusion Hands Opportunity
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

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