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
The mistake that makes launching a venture expensive is when you try to make a disruptive technology so good that it can… — 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
When you're thinking about your next product or current product and wondering how to make it different so you don't have competition,… — 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
Management is getting people together to figure out how to transform inputs into outputs. In the process of figuring out the process… — 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… — Clayton Christensen Copy Share Image
Growth makes management easier. In particular, it makes making labor concessions seem easy. It's when growth stops because you're being disrupted that… — Clayton Christensen Copy Share Image
If you understand cause and effect, it brings about a set of insights that leads you to a very different place. The… — Clayton Christensen Copy Share Image
People have an idol they want to be like and try to follow what the idols did. But when you do, you… — 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… — 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
When you improve your product so it does the customer's job better, then you gain market share. — Clayton Christensen Copy Share Image
In an environment where you've got to push innovations out the door fast and keep the cost of innovation low, the probability… — 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
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
Funding that is focused on the ability to diagnose diseases precisely will just have inestimable value because that's the gate through which… — 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
