Disruptive innovations create jobs, efficiency innovations destroy them. — 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
We have found that companies need to speak a common language because some of the suggested ways to harness disruptive innovation are… — Clayton Christensen Copy Share Image
The answer is the disruptive innovator, an outsider, who creates a product or service for the non-existing consumer in a non-existing market… — Clayton Christensen Copy Share Image
A lot has been written about the Internet bust. From my point of view, it's quite clear the Internet isn't a category;… — 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
The principles of disruptive innovation are indeed intended to be guidelines to assist managers both in introducing disruptive innovations as well as… — Clayton Christensen Copy Share Image
The mistake that makes launching a venture expensive is when you try to make a disruptive technology so good that it can… — Clayton Christensen Copy Share Image
Companies, in fact, are specifically organized to under-invest in disruptive innovations! This is one reason why we often suggest that companies set… — Clayton Christensen Copy Share Image
By the time it becomes obvious that a technology will have truly disruptive impact, it is often too late to take action.… — 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
Disruptive technology is a theory. It says this will happen and this is why; it's a statement of cause and effect. In… — Clayton Christensen Copy Share Image
At the beginning of almost every industry, the available products and services are so expensive to own and complicated to use that… — Clayton Christensen Copy Share Image
The personal computer was a disruptive innovation relative to the mainframe because it enabled even a poor fool like me to have… — 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
