Growth Quotes by Clayton Christensen

10 Growth quotes by Clayton Christensen

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Clayton Christensen’s insights on growth focus on innovation and disruption. Ten succinct statements capture his strategic thinking, perfect for anyone looking to reshape their path.

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Growth makes management easier. In particular, it makes making labor concessions seem easy. It's when growth stops because you're being disrupted that…

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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…

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You can invest to create the new growth business while the core business is still growing, because new business units don't need…

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Most companies think of disruption as a threat. But disruptive innovations have tremendous growth potential. If incumbent companies can learn how to…

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Don't worry about the level of individual prominence you have achieved; worry about the individuals you have helped become better people.

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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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The Republicans are wrong in thinking that the rich create jobs. In reality, many of the richest Americans have been investing in…

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No idea for a new growth business ever comes fully shaped. When it emerges, it's half-baked, and it then goes through a…

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If a company truly wants to resolve the innovator's dilemma, it does need to be able to create wave after wave of…

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How could Digital's collapse be so precipitous? It's because, in many ways, financial performance data is misleading. As you move up to…

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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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People in private equity complain that they have so much capital and so few places to invest. But you have lots of entrepreneurs trying…

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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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