Efficiency innovations provide return on investment in 12-18 months. Empowering innovations take 5-10 years to yield a return. We have ample capital… — Clayton Christensen Copy Share Image
The innovations are far more important because the technology itself has now way to impact the world for good until it's embedded… — Clayton Christensen Copy Share Image
The Republicans are wrong in thinking that the rich create jobs. In reality, many of the richest Americans have been investing in… — Clayton Christensen Copy Share Image
Empowering innovations transform something that is complicated and expensive into something that is so much more simple and affordable that a much… — 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
Efficiency innovations are a natural part of the economic cycle, but these are the innovations that streamline process and actually reduce the… — Clayton Christensen Copy Share Image
Efficiency innovations arise in industries that already exist. They provide existing goods and services at much lower costs. They are not empowering.… — 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
In an environment where you've got to push innovations out the door fast and keep the cost of innovation low, the probability… — 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
