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The company without a strategy is willing to try anything.

Michael Porter

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
There’s a fundamental distinction between strategy and operational effectiveness.
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Effect Fundamental Operational Strategy
If all you’re trying to do is essentially the same thing as your rivals, then it’s unlikely that you’ll be very successful.
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Rival Success Try Yourself
Competitive strategy is about being different. It means deliberately choosing a different set of activities to deliver a unique mix of value.
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Activity Choice Competition Deliver Different Unique
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 best CEOs I know are teachers, and at the core of what they teach is strategy.
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Best Myself Strategy Teacher
The underlying principles of strategy are enduring, regardless of technology or the pace of change.
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Change Endurance Pace Principle Technology
If 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.
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Big Goal Leadership Problem Profit Yourself
Strategic thinking rarely occurs spontaneously.
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Occur Rare Strategy
In the vast majority of businesses, there is simply no such thing as “the best.”
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Best Business Majority Simplicity
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
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
Change brings opportunities. On the other hand, change can be confusing.
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Change Confusion Hands Opportunity
A strategy delineates a territory in which a company seeks to be unique.
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Company Seek Strategy Territory Unique
Innovation is the central issue in economic prosperity.
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Economics Innovation Issues Prosperity
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

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