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Michael Porter Quotes about Strategy

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

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

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

Operational effectiveness and strategy are both essential to superior performance.

Harvard Business Review, John P. Kotter, Michael Porter, Elizabeth Olmsted Teisberg (2015). “Leadership, Strategy, and Innovation: Health Care Collection (8 Items)”, p.1687, Harvard Business Review Press

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

"Strategy bites back: It is a lot more, and less, than you ever imagined". Book by Henry Mintzberg, Bruce W. Ahlstrand, Joseph Lampel (p. 45), 2005.

Risk is a function of how poorly a strategy will perform if the 'wrong' scenario occurs.

Michael E. Porter (1985). “Competitive Advantage: Creating and Sustaining Superior Performance”

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

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