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Ultimately, health care fails the most basic test. It’s not organized around the needs of the patient.

Michael Porter

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
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
In the vast majority of businesses, there is simply no such thing as “the best.”
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Best Business Majority Simplicity
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
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
The company without a strategy is willing to try anything.
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Company Ideas Try Willing
Good leaders need a positive agenda, not just an agenda of dealing with crisis.
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Deal Goodness Leadership Need Positive
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
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
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
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
Efforts to preserve all industries will lower the national standard of living.
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Effort Live Lower National Preserve Standard
Innovation is the central issue in economic prosperity.
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Economics Innovation Issues Prosperity
Strategy is about setting yourself apart from the competition. It’s not a matter of being better at what you do – it’s a matter of being different at what you do.
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Better Competition Different Started Yourself
A target should go with every goal. A target is the value that defines success.
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Definition Goal Success Target Value

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