“The best CEOs I know are teachers, and at the core of what they teach is strateg…” — Michael Porter

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.

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.

Good leaders need a positive agenda, not just an agenda of dealing with crisis.

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.