It is a company's customers who effectively control what it can and cannot do. — Clayton Christensen Copy Share Image
In a large successful company where your power base as CEO isn't all that secure, it's hard for a CEO to pursue… — Clayton Christensen Copy Share Image
If you ask the average guy on the street to name five companies that have truly transformed themselves over the few decades,… — Clayton Christensen Copy Share Image
If the technology is disruptive, on the other hand, the odds are that at the end of the transition, the leaders will… — Clayton Christensen Copy Share Image
In most instances, biotechnology, though a radically different approach, is a sustaining technology: It's a dramatically improved way of targeting problems that… — Clayton Christensen Copy Share Image
To prop up the stock price, managers have to turn down the screws on everybody. That forces them to cancel all the… — Clayton Christensen Copy Share Image
In my first career I had founded my own company, with a group of MIT professors, before coming to Harvard to finish… — Clayton Christensen Copy Share Image
Often they [writers on the study of management] have a point of view based upon intuition and experience. They then offer a… — Clayton Christensen Copy Share Image
When the functionality of a product or service overshoots what customers can use, it changes the way companies have to compete. When… — Clayton Christensen Copy Share Image
Another thing I've observed is how critical the role of the CEO is when a technology truly is disruptive. In looking back… — Clayton Christensen Copy Share Image
But actually theory is very practical. Gravity is a theory, for example. It allows you to predict that if you step off a cliff… — Clayton Christensen Copy Share
In our lives and in our careers, whether we are aware of it or not, we are constantly navigating a path by deciding between… — Clayton Christensen Copy Share
Many of the factors that we think will cause motivation, such as fair pay and a good manager, won't make you love your job.… — Clayton Christensen Copy Share
People in private equity complain that they have so much capital and so few places to invest. But you have lots of entrepreneurs trying… — Clayton Christensen Copy Share
If you're successful and growing, you can manage any way you want to. Growth makes so many dimensions of management easier. It's when growth… — Clayton Christensen Copy Share
A sustaining innovation makes better products that you can sell for better profits to your best customers. — Clayton Christensen Copy Share
Purpose must be deliberately conceived and chosen, and then pursued. — Clayton Christensen Copy Share
The mistake that makes launching a venture expensive is when you try to make a disruptive technology so good that it can compete on… — Clayton Christensen Copy Share
What you need is a fundamental humility - the belief that you can learn from anyone. — Clayton Christensen Copy Share
This is why I belong, and why I believe. I commend to all this same search for happiness and for the truth. — Clayton Christensen Copy Share
I think this is one reason why the Lord invented the Internet - so members can teach one another how to succeed in assignments… — Clayton Christensen Copy Share
Because these firms listened to their customers, invested aggressively in new technologies that would provide their customers more and better products of the sort… — Clayton Christensen Copy Share
At the beginning of almost every industry, the available products and services are so expensive to own and complicated to use that only people… — Clayton Christensen Copy Share
Management has to provide the coordinating mechanism between what the supplier provides and what the user needs in not-good-enough situations where product architecture is… — Clayton Christensen Copy Share
When you're thinking about your next product or current product and wondering how to make it different so you don't have competition, understand the… — Clayton Christensen Copy Share
![“Often they [writers on the study of management] have a point of view based upon intuition and experience. They then offer a cadence of two-paragraph examples carefully selected to "prove" their theory, and then they write "one size fits all" books. The message is, "If you'd do what these companies…” quote by Clayton Christensen](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/d0e/clayton-christensen-2433_being-successful_often-they-writers-on-the-study-of-manag_510306.jpg)
