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Good leaders need a positive agenda, not just an agenda of dealing with crisis.

Michael Porter

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 company without a strategy is willing to try anything.
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Company Ideas Try Willing
Efforts to preserve all industries will lower the national standard of living.
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Effort Live Lower National Preserve Standard
Companies operating in urban communities have a tremendous ripple effect.
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Community Company Effect Urban
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
Finally, strategy must have continuity. It can’t be constantly reinvented.
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Constant Invention Strategy
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
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
Good leaders need a positive agenda, not just an agenda of dealing with crisis.
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Deal Goodness Leadership Need Positive
You can’t be all things to all people.
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Be Yourself People Self Love
There’s a fundamental distinction between strategy and operational effectiveness.
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Effect Fundamental Operational Strategy
A target should go with every goal. A target is the value that defines success.
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Definition Goal Success Target Value
Change brings opportunities. On the other hand, change can be confusing.
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Change Confusion Hands Opportunity
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
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
Strategy is choice. Strategy means saying no to certain kinds of things.
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Choice Decline Kind Strategy

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