If a strategy meets a goal: It’s working. If a strategy meets a target: It’s a success.
MICHAEL PORTERIf a strategy meets a goal: It’s working. If a strategy meets a target: It’s a success.
MICHAEL PORTEREfforts to preserve all industries will lower the national standard of living.
MICHAEL PORTERThe essence of strategy is that you must set limits on what you’re trying to accomplish.
MICHAEL PORTERCompetitive strategy is about being different. It means deliberately choosing a different set of activities to deliver a unique mix of value.
MICHAEL PORTERWithout a goal analytics is aimless and worthless.
MICHAEL PORTERHealth 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.
MICHAEL PORTERYou can’t be all things to all people.
MICHAEL PORTERIf 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.
MICHAEL PORTERBillions are wasted on ineffective philanthropy. Philanthropy is decades behind business in applying rigorous thinking to the use of money.
MICHAEL PORTEROperational effectiveness and strategy are both essential to superior performance.
MICHAEL PORTERThe 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.
MICHAEL PORTERThe best CEOs I know are teachers, and at the core of what they teach is strategy.
MICHAEL PORTERGood leaders need a positive agenda, not just an agenda of dealing with crisis.
MICHAEL PORTERThe essence of strategy is choosing what not to do.
MICHAEL PORTERA target should go with every goal. A target is the value that defines success.
MICHAEL PORTERStrategy is choice. Strategy means saying no to certain kinds of things.
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