Michael Porter Quotes - Page 2

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• 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.

  Michael Porter

  Technology, Goal, Leader

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• The chief strategist of an organization has to be the leader - the CEO.

  Michael Porter

  Organization, Leader, Chiefs

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• 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.

  Michael Porter

  Fighting, Technology, Opportunity

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• Efforts to preserve all industries will lower the national standard of living.

  Michael Porter

  Effort, Standards, Industry

  Michael E. Porter (2011). “Competitive Advantage of Nations: Creating and Sustaining Superior Performance”, p.901, Simon and Schuster

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• There's a fundamental distinction between strategy and operational effectiveness.

  Michael Porter

  Effectiveness, Fundamentals, Strategy

  "What is strategy?" by Michael Porter, Harvard Business Review, November 1996.

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• The ability to change constantly and effectively is made easier by high-level continuity.

  Michael Porter

  Levels, Easier, Made

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

  Michael Porter

  Needs, Care, Tests

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• The underlying principles of strategy are enduring, regardless of technology or the pace of change.

  Michael Porter

  Technology, Principles, Pace

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• Finally, strategy must have continuity. It can't be constantly reinvented.

  Michael Porter

  Strategy, Continuity

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• Billions are wasted on ineffective philanthropy. Philanthropy is decades behind business in applying rigorous thinking to the use of money.

  Michael Porter

  Thinking, Use, Philanthropy

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• 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.

  Michael Porter

  Facts, Improvement, Consistent

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• 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.

  Michael Porter

  Moving, Balls, Ping Pong

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• Companies operating in urban communities have a tremendous ripple effect.

  Michael Porter

  Community, Urban, Ripple Effect

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• Apple does all of its research and development in America. It has all these brilliant people sitting in Silicon Valley. But until recently, Apple made nothing in America. Zero. And the jobs that were accessible to a good, well-trained worker that knew how to do welding or assembly, none of those jobs had stayed in America. We don't have the workforce.

  Michael Porter

  Zero, Jobs, Research And Development

  Source: www.usatoday.com

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• The economic distress of America's inner cities may be the most pressing issue facing the nation. The lack of businesses and jobs in disadvantaged urban areas fuels not only a crushing cycle of poverty but also crippling social problems such as drug abuse and crime… A sustainable economic base can be created in the inner city, but only as it has been created elsewhere: through private, for-profit initiatives and investment based on economic self-interest and genuine competitive advantage.

  Michael Porter

  Crush, Jobs, Cities

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• 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.

  Michael Porter

  School, Government, Medical

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• The U.S. is facing a structural competitiveness problem that is leading to the weakest economy we have seen in generations.

  Michael Porter

  Generations, Problem, Economy

  Source: www.usatoday.com

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