Thinking Quotes by Clayton Christensen

9 Thinking quotes by Clayton Christensen

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Clayton Christensen’s nine thoughts on thinking give a brief snapshot of the strategist’s analytical style. This short collection offers a handy entry point for anyone curious about how he approached innovation and disruption.

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Innovation simply isn't as unpredictable as many people think. There isn't a cookbook yet, but we're getting there.

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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,…

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Core competence, as it is used by many managers, is a dangerously inward-looking notion. Competitiveness is far more about doing what customers…

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Businesses want to think in terms of categories. Consumers want us to think in terms of their needs.

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Think about the metric by which your life will be judged, and make a resolution to live every day so that in…

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The Republicans are wrong in thinking that the rich create jobs. In reality, many of the richest Americans have been investing in…

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There are other dimensions of biotechnology. If you think of biotechnology like the Internet, it's not a category - it's an infrastructure…

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Most companies think of disruption as a threat. But disruptive innovations have tremendous growth potential. If incumbent companies can learn how to…

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I've concluded that the metric by which God will assess my life isn't dollars, but the individual people whose lives I've touched.…

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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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