Effectiveness Quote by Michael Porter Download Open image “Operational effectiveness and strategy are both essential to superior performance.” — Michael Porter ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.9 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Effectiveness Essentials Performances Strategy Superior performance Superiors
There's a fundamental distinction between strategy and operational effectiveness. — Michael Porter Copy Share Image
“Managers must clearly distinguish operational effectiveness from strategy.” — Michael E. Porter Copy Share Image
“Programs in operational effectiveness produce reassuring progress, although superior profitability may remain elusive. Business publications and consultants flood the market with information about what… — Michael E. Porter Copy Share Image
“Operational effectiveness can be the single most important factor in the success, or indeed in the survival, of any business.” — Bruce C.N. Greenwald Copy Share Image
While looking ahead, we know challenges remain, but we are encouraged by the strategies we have in place to improve our operational efficiencies and… — Karen Katz Copy Share Image
An effective strategy almost always involves both doing something and not doing something, and knowing when to choose the right alternative. To succeed, the… — John E Ferling Copy Share Image
“In many industries, however, what some call hypercompetition is a self-inflicted wound, not the inevitable outcome of a changing paradigm of competition. The root… — Michael E. Porter Copy Share Image
We believe this combination of excellence in operations and strong execution of our strategy is critical to achieve our vision. We will continue to… — Azim Premji Copy Share Image
When it comes to efficiency and effectiveness, I would always start with effectiveness. I am interested in achieving a certain outcome. Only secondarily do… — Philip Kotler Copy Share Image
“Strategy execution doesn’t go for perfect, it’s the core business capability needs to be sharpened for improving the business performance and maturity.” — Pearl Zhu Copy Share Image
When we deal in generalities, we shall never succeed. When we deal in specifics, we shall rarely have a failure. When performance is measured,… — Thomas S. Monson Copy Share Image
So companies have to be very schizophrenic. On one hand, they have to maintain continuity of strategy. But they also have to be good… — Michael Porter Copy Share Image
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… — Michael Porter Copy Share Image
Good leaders need a positive agenda, not just an agenda of dealing with crisis. — Michael Porter Copy Share Image
Health care historically has been a very siloed field that's organized around medical specialties - urology, cardiac surgery, and so forth - and around… — Michael Porter Copy Share Image
Being an American doesn't mean that you're guaranteed a high wage. You have to be productive, and we have to create a very low-cost,… — Michael Porter Copy Share Image
The U.S. is facing a structural competitiveness problem that is leading to the weakest economy we have seen in generations. — Michael Porter Copy Share Image
I'm really puzzled by why people in societies find it difficult to work collaboratively together with other people in societies. — Michael Porter Copy Share Image
In America, the problems of poverty and low income, particularly for minorities, are disproportionately focused in the inner cities. Shining a spotlight on the… — Michael Porter Copy Share Image
You can't have a healthy society unless you have healthy companies that are making a profit, that are employing people and that are growing. — Michael Porter Copy Share Image
The ability to change constantly and effectively is made easier by high-level continuity. — Michael Porter Copy Share Image
I think that, too many times, business has been seen as acting in its narrow self-interest rather than, essentially, contributing more broadly to society.… — Michael Porter Copy Share Image
“Having no applicable skills, in any possible area whatsoever, effectively makes me the master of redundancy. But that info is obsolete, like my insults… — Will Advise Copy Share Image
“There is no shortcut for hard work that leads to effectiveness. You must stay disciplined because most of the work is behind the scenes.” — Germany Kent Copy Share Image
If we would have anything of benefit, we must earn it, and earning it become shrewd, inventive, ingenious, active, enterprising. — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
Many people seem to think that success in one area can compensate for failure in other areas. But can it really?... True effectiveness requires… — Stephen Covey Copy Share Image
Effectiveness in teaching the Bible is purchased at the price of much study, some of it lonely, all of it tiring. — D. A. Carson Copy Share Image
Winning the prize wasn't half as exciting as doing the work itself. — Maria Goeppert-Mayer Copy Share Image
The secret of all victory lies in the organization of the non-obvious. — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
Maybe you've attended church for five, ten, or even twenty years, but you've never cracked open the Bible to prepare yourself for effectiveness as… — Howard G. Hendricks Copy Share Image
The man or woman at home who prays often has as much to do with the effectiveness of the missionary on the field, and… — R. A. Torrey Copy Share Image
You can listen to what people say, sure. But you will be far more effective if you listen to what people do. — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
Personal and organizational effectiveness is proportionate to the strength of leadership. — John C. Maxwell Copy Share Image
Concentration is the key to economic results. No other principle of effectiveness is violated as constantly today as the basic principle of concentration.... Our… — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image