Operational effectiveness and strategy are both essential to superior performance.

The company without a strategy is willing to try anything.

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

Billions are wasted on ineffective philanthropy. Philanthropy is decades behind business in applying rigorous thinking to the use of money.

Technology has given us this wonderful opportunity to have low energy costs. We have to seize that, rather than keep debating and discussing and fighting over it.

Competitive strategy is about being different. It means deliberately choosing a different set of activities to deliver a unique mix of value.

The chief strategist of an organization has to be the leader - the CEO.