Management is the most noble of professions if it's practiced well, — 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… — Clayton Christensen Copy Share Image
Management is getting people together to figure out how to transform inputs into outputs. In the process of figuring out the process… — Clayton Christensen Copy Share Image
Only the general manager can mold the resources, processes, and values that affect innovation , into a coherent capability to develop and… — 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
Growth makes management easier. In particular, it makes making labor concessions seem easy. It's when growth stops because you're being disrupted that… — 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
Many think of management as cutting deals and laying people off and hiring people and buying and selling companies. That's not management;… — 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
The whole enterprise of teaching managers is steeped in the ethic of data-driven analytical support. The problem is, the data is only… — Clayton Christensen Copy Share Image
I've concluded that getting the categories right is an absolutely crucial step to building useful management theory, and unfortunately too few writers… — 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… — Clayton Christensen Copy Share Image
The mistake managers often make is defining their industry too narrowly. Digital's market share in the minicomputer market stayed very robust even… — Clayton Christensen Copy Share Image
Year after year after year, people write books about managing innovation or about leadership, for example, without ever going through the pain… — 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
In my first career I had founded my own company, with a group of MIT professors, before coming to Harvard to finish… — Clayton Christensen Copy Share Image
To prop up the stock price, managers have to turn down the screws on everybody. That forces them to cancel all the… — Clayton Christensen Copy Share Image
Core competence, as it is used by many managers, is a dangerously inward-looking notion. Competitiveness is far more about doing what customers… — Clayton Christensen Copy Share Image
The biggest mistake is an over-reliance on data. Managers will say if there are no data they can take no action. However,… — Clayton Christensen Copy Share Image
Management has to provide the coordinating mechanism between what the supplier provides and what the user needs in not-good-enough situations where product… — 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
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
One reason there are so many short-lived management fads is that their prescriptions were derived and advocated in precisely this way. So… — 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)
