If a strategy meets a goal: It’s working. If a strategy meets a target: It’s a success.
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.
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Good leaders need a positive agenda, not just an agenda of dealing with crisis.
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Operational effectiveness and strategy are both essential to superior performance.
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Billions are wasted on ineffective philanthropy. Philanthropy is decades behind business in applying rigorous thinking to the use of money.
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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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Strategy is choice. Strategy means saying no to certain kinds of things.
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Innovation is the central issue in economic prosperity.
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The best CEOs I know are teachers, and at the core of what they teach is strategy.
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Without a goal analytics is aimless and worthless.
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Companies operating in urban communities have a tremendous ripple effect.
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Risk is a function of how poorly a strategy will perform if the ‘wrong’ scenario occurs.
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The chief strategist of an organization has to be the leader – the CEO.
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Sound strategy starts with having the right goal
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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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Strategy is about making choices, trade-offs; it’s about deliberately choosing to be different.
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The essence of strategy is that you must set limits on what you’re trying to accomplish.
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