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
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
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
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
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 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
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
