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Most people won't realize that writing is a craft. You have to take your apprenticeship in it like anything else. ↗

— Katherine Anne Porter

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

— Michael Porter

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

— Michael Porter

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

— Michael Porter

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Strategy 101 is about choices: You can't be all things to all people. ↗

— Michael Porter

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The essence of strategy is choosing what not to do. ↗

— Michael Porter

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

— Michael Porter

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So companies have to be very schizophrenic. On one hand, they have to maintain continuity of strategy. But they also have to be good at continuously improving. ↗

— Michael Porter

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The underlying principles of strategy are enduring, regardless of technology or the pace of change. ↗

— Michael Porter

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Architects in the past have tended to concentrate their attention on the building as a static object. I believe dynamics are more important: the dynamics of people, their interaction with spaces and environmental condition. ↗

— John Portman

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