Businesses must reconnect company success with social progress. Shared value is not social responsibility, philanthropy, or even sustainability, but a new way to achieve economic success. It is not on the margin of what companies do but at the center. We believe that it can give rise to the next major transformation of business thinking.

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

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.

The U.S. is facing a structural competitiveness problem that is leading to the weakest economy we have seen in generations.

The ability to change constantly and effectively is made easier by high-level continuity.

Operational effectiveness and strategy are both essential to superior performance.

The essence of strategy is that you must set limits on what you're trying to accomplish.