Management is the most noble of professions if it's practiced well, — Clayton Christensen Copy Share Image
If I know what to spec, and I can measure it, and there are no unpredictable interdependencies between what you do and… — 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
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
In 15 years from now half of US universities may be in bankruptcy ... in the end I'm excited to see that… — Clayton Christensen Copy Share Image
If you just look at the data, you are led to believe that things are getting better, rather than worse. That's why… — Clayton Christensen Copy Share Image
My conclusion: Management is the most noble of professions if it's practiced well. No other occupation offers as many ways to help… — 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… — Clayton Christensen Copy Share Image
If you study the root causes of business disasters, over and over you'll find this predisposition toward endeavors that offer immediate gratification. — Clayton Christensen Copy Share Image
If you want to make better theory, you've got to use the best that's available and look through the lens of another… — Clayton Christensen Copy Share Image
And if your attitude is that only smarter people have something to teach you, your learning opportunities will be very limited. ...… — 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
Questions are places in your mind where answers fit. If you haven't asked the question, the answer has nowhere to go. It… — Clayton Christensen Copy Share Image
There are other dimensions of biotechnology. If you think of biotechnology like the Internet, it's not a category - it's an infrastructure… — Clayton Christensen Copy Share Image
We decided that humility was defined not by self-deprecating behavior or attitudes but by the esteem with which you regard others... Generally,… — Clayton Christensen Copy Share Image
If the theory accurately predicts what they [scientists] see, it confirms that it's a good theory. If they see something that the… — Clayton Christensen Copy Share Image
Breaking an old business model is always going to require leaders to follow their instinct. There will always be persuasive reasons not… — Clayton Christensen Copy Share Image
In the study of management, unfortunately, many writers have been so anxious to articulate a theory in the form of, "If you… — 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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
A sustaining innovation makes better products that you can sell for better profits to your best customers. — Clayton Christensen Copy Share Image
Purpose must be deliberately conceived and chosen, and then pursued. — 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 compete on… — Clayton Christensen Copy Share Image
What you need is a fundamental humility - the belief that you can learn from anyone. — Clayton Christensen Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
![“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/quotes/img-quotes/d0e/clayton-christensen-2433_being-successful_often-they-writers-on-the-study-of-manag_510306.jpg)
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