Competitive Strategy Is About Being Different. It

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.

The Ability To Change Constantly And Effectively Is Made Easier By High-level Continuity.

Strategy Is Choice. Strategy Means Saying No To Certain Kinds Of Things.

Strategy Is About Making Choices, Trade-offs; It's About Deliberately Choosing To Be Different.

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.