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Efforts to preserve all industries will lower the national standard of living.

Michael Porter

The chief strategist of an organization has to be the leader – the CEO.
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Leadership Organization Strategy
A strategy delineates a territory in which a company seeks to be unique.
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Company Seek Strategy Territory Unique
Good leaders need a positive agenda, not just an agenda of dealing with crisis.
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Deal Goodness Leadership Need Positive
I teach in the medical school, the School of Public Health, the Kennedy School of Government, and the Business School. And it’s the best perch… because most of my work crosses boundaries.
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Boundary Government Medicine Teaching
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 essence of strategy is choosing what not to do.
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Choice Essence Strategy Yourself
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
Without a goal analytics is aimless and worthless.
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Aim Goal Wasted Worth
Operational effectiveness and strategy are both essential to superior performance.
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Effect Operational Performance Superior
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
There’s a fundamental distinction between strategy and operational effectiveness.
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Effect Fundamental Operational Strategy
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
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
Finally, strategy must have continuity. It can’t be constantly reinvented.
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Constant Invention Strategy
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
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

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