Think Quotes by Clayton Christensen

8 Think quotes by Clayton Christensen

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Clayton Christensen’s eight concise lines cut to the core of strategic insight. The collection offers a succinct look at his analytical mindset, perfect for anyone probing the mechanics of innovation.

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Many of the factors that we think will cause motivation, such as fair pay and a good manager, won't make you love…

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People in private equity complain that they have so much capital and so few places to invest. But you have lots of…

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I think this is one reason why the Lord invented the Internet - so members can teach one another how to succeed…

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The way I ought to measure my life is in terms of the others I helped to become better and happier people.…

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There are direct paths to a successful career. But there are plenty of indirect paths, too. So many young people I speak…

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People don't actually want to think about their own health and don't take action until they are sick. Yet employers are very…

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I don't have my finger on the pulse of corruption in China, but I think most people on the ground would say…

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Many think of management as cutting deals and laying people off and hiring people and buying and selling companies. That's not management;…

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But actually theory is very practical. Gravity is a theory, for example. It allows you to predict that if you step off a cliff…

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In our lives and in our careers, whether we are aware of it or not, we are constantly navigating a path by deciding between…

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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.…

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People in private equity complain that they have so much capital and so few places to invest. But you have lots of entrepreneurs trying…

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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…

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A sustaining innovation makes better products that you can sell for better profits to your best customers.

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Purpose must be deliberately conceived and chosen, and then pursued.

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The mistake that makes launching a venture expensive is when you try to make a disruptive technology so good that it can compete on…

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What you need is a fundamental humility - the belief that you can learn from anyone.

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This is why I belong, and why I believe. I commend to all this same search for happiness and for the truth.

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I think this is one reason why the Lord invented the Internet - so members can teach one another how to succeed in assignments…

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Because these firms listened to their customers, invested aggressively in new technologies that would provide their customers more and better products of the sort…

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At the beginning of almost every industry, the available products and services are so expensive to own and complicated to use that only people…

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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…

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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…

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