I mean Monte, the last two games the way he’s come up in the clutch in the fourth quarter, that’s so huge for us, i can’t say enough about that dude, just his composure, what he does for our team, it’s pretty amazing. Especially being a backup point guard, he’s stepping up on the biggest stage and showing what he’s capable of.

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The essence of strategy is choosing what not to do.

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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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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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Strategy is about making choices, trade-offs; it's about deliberately choosing to be different.

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Businesses must reconnect company success with social progress. Shared value is not social responsibility, philanthropy, or even sustainability, but a new way to achieve economic success. It is not on the margin of what companies do but at the center. We believe that it can give rise to the next major transformation of business thinking.

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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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A strategy delineates a territory in which a company seeks to be unique.

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If a strategy meets a goal: It's working. If a strategy meets a target: It's a success.

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The best CEOs I know are teachers, and at the core of what they teach is strategy.

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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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Innovation is the central issue in economic prosperity.

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

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Sound strategy starts with having the right goal

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Competitiveness is defined as the ability of companies to compete while maintaining or improving the average standard of living. If you are cutting wages to become more competitive, that's not really more competitive. It's raising the skill and the efficiency of those workers so that they can support and sustain that higher wage.

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Strategy is choice. Strategy means saying no to certain kinds of things.

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The company without a strategy is willing to try anything.

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The essence of strategy is that you must set limits on what you're trying to accomplish.

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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.

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A target should go with every goal. A target is the value that defines success.

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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.

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