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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.

Michael Porter

Good leaders need a positive agenda, not just an agenda of dealing with crisis.
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Deal Goodness Leadership Need Positive
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
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
Strategic thinking rarely occurs spontaneously.
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Occur Rare Strategy
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
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
Strategy is choice. Strategy means saying no to certain kinds of things.
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Choice Decline Kind Strategy
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
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
Finally, strategy must have continuity. It can’t be constantly reinvented.
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Constant Invention 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
The essence of strategy is that you must set limits on what you’re trying to accomplish.
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Accomplishment Limitation Strategy Yourself
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
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
Sound strategy starts with having the right goal
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Goal Right Sound Start
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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