There are direct paths to a successful career. But there are plenty of indirect paths, too. So many young people I speak… — 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
It is when the product is not good enough that proprietary integration gives you a competitive edge. You cannot outsource and be… — Clayton Christensen Copy Share Image
In most instances, biotechnology, though a radically different approach, is a sustaining technology: It's a dramatically improved way of targeting problems that… — Clayton Christensen Copy Share Image
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.… — Clayton Christensen Copy Share Image
I talk to our kids now that they are grown up, and I ask them about the experiences that had growing up… — 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… — Clayton Christensen Copy Share Image
During the early stages of an industry, when the functionality and reliability of a product isn't yet adequate to meet customer's needs,… — 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
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
How could Digital's collapse be so precipitous? It's because, in many ways, financial performance data is misleading. As you move up to… — Clayton Christensen Copy Share Image
The important thing is that over time, scientific progress transforms things that used to have to be dealt with in a problem-solving… — Clayton Christensen Copy Share Image
The way I ought to measure my life is in terms of the others I helped to become better and happier people.… — 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
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 believe that we can, in a deliberate way, articulate the kind of people we want to become. We can articulate the… — 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
In organizations, once you articulate how success will be measured, everybody tries to game the system so that they are measured in… — Clayton Christensen Copy Share Image
When I have my interview with my God, our conversation will focus on the individuals whose self-esteem I was able to strengthen,… — 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
When the functionality of a product or service overshoots what customers can use, it changes the way companies have to compete. When… — 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
