Company Quotes by Clayton Christensen

10 Company quotes by Clayton Christensen

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Clayton Christensen distills the mechanics of disruption into ten pithy lines. His focus on innovation, market forces, and strategic foresight makes this a handy primer for anyone curious about how companies evolve.

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In a large successful company where your power base as CEO isn't all that secure, it's hard for a CEO to pursue…

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It is a company's customers who effectively control what it can and cannot do.

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In most instances, biotechnology, though a radically different approach, is a sustaining technology: It's a dramatically improved way of targeting problems that…

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If you ask the average guy on the street to name five companies that have truly transformed themselves over the few decades,…

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If the technology is disruptive, on the other hand, the odds are that at the end of the transition, the leaders will…

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Often they [writers on the study of management] have a point of view based upon intuition and experience. They then offer a…

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Another thing I've observed is how critical the role of the CEO is when a technology truly is disruptive. In looking back…

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When the functionality of a product or service overshoots what customers can use, it changes the way companies have to compete. When…

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To prop up the stock price, managers have to turn down the screws on everybody. That forces them to cancel all the…

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In my first career I had founded my own company, with a group of MIT professors, before coming to Harvard to finish…

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In our lives and in our careers, whether we are aware of it or not, we are constantly navigating a path by deciding between…

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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.…

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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…

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A sustaining innovation makes better products that you can sell for better profits to your best customers.

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Purpose must be deliberately conceived and chosen, and then pursued.

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The mistake that makes launching a venture expensive is when you try to make a disruptive technology so good that it can compete on…

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What you need is a fundamental humility - the belief that you can learn from anyone.

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This is why I belong, and why I believe. I commend to all this same search for happiness and for the truth.

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I think this is one reason why the Lord invented the Internet - so members can teach one another how to succeed in assignments…

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Because these firms listened to their customers, invested aggressively in new technologies that would provide their customers more and better products of the sort…

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At the beginning of almost every industry, the available products and services are so expensive to own and complicated to use that only people…

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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…

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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…

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