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
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… — Clayton Christensen Copy Share Image
If we are to develop profound theory to solve the intractable problems in our societally-critical domains... we must learn to crawl into… — Clayton Christensen Copy Share Image
Ultimately, when you come up with a classification scheme that is collectively exhaustive and mutually exclusive, then the theory can become what… — Clayton Christensen Copy Share Image
The outsourcing gurus have been driving the theory, and they are saying everybody ought always to do this. But it is really… — 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
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
I was lucky enough to build on the work of a number of people who had already run laps around this theory-building… — Clayton Christensen Copy Share Image
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
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 the first stage of insight-building, all that researchers can do is observe phenomena. Second, they classify the phenomena in a way… — Clayton Christensen Copy Share Image
The process of writing 'The Innovator's Dilemma' entailed the developing a new theory. My colleagues, students and I have been improving that… — 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
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
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
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
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
A sustaining innovation makes better products that you can sell for better profits to your best customers. — Clayton Christensen Copy Share
Purpose must be deliberately conceived and chosen, and then pursued. — Clayton Christensen Copy Share
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
What you need is a fundamental humility - the belief that you can learn from anyone. — Clayton Christensen Copy Share
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
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
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
At the beginning of almost every industry, the available products and services are so expensive to own and complicated to use that only people… — Clayton Christensen Copy Share
Management has to provide the coordinating mechanism between what the supplier provides and what the user needs in not-good-enough situations where product architecture is… — Clayton Christensen Copy Share
When you're thinking about your next product or current product and wondering how to make it different so you don't have competition, understand the… — Clayton Christensen Copy Share
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