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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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Operational effectiveness and strategy are both essential to superior performance.
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Effect Operational Performance Superior
Companies operating in urban communities have a tremendous ripple effect.
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Community Company Effect Urban
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
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
Efforts to preserve all industries will lower the national standard of living.
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Effort Live Lower National Preserve Standard
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
Without a goal analytics is aimless and worthless.
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Aim Goal Wasted Worth
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
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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Cost Discussion Energy Fight Low Opportunity Technology Wonderful
Risk is a function of how poorly a strategy will perform if the ‘wrong’ scenario occurs.
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Function Performance Poor Risk Strategy Wrong
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
A strategy delineates a territory in which a company seeks to be unique.
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Company Seek Strategy Territory Unique
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
You can’t be all things to all people.
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Be Yourself People Self Love
Strategy is choice. Strategy means saying no to certain kinds of things.
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Choice Decline Kind 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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