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Finally, strategy must have continuity. It can’t be constantly reinvented.

Michael Porter

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
Operational effectiveness and strategy are both essential to superior performance.
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Effect Operational Performance Superior
Without a goal analytics is aimless and worthless.
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Aim Goal Wasted Worth
Strategy is about making choices, trade-offs; it’s about deliberately choosing to be different.
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Choice Different Strategy Yourself
Ultimately, health care fails the most basic test. It’s not organized around the needs of the patient.
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Basic Care Failure Health Need Patient
You can’t be all things to all people.
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Be Yourself People Self Love
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
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
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
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
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
In the vast majority of businesses, there is simply no such thing as “the best.”
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Best Business Majority Simplicity
The chief strategist of an organization has to be the leader – the CEO.
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Leadership Organization Strategy

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