Clayton M. Christensen

Quotes

• “…I came to understand that while many of us might default to measuring our lives by summary statistics, such as number o...”
• “What's unique about the Mormon Church is that it encourages inquiry. I really do think my research and religion are all ...”
• “You can talk all you want about having a clear purpose and strategy for your life, but ultimately this means nothing if ...”
• “In the universities, we teach you what we decide you need to know. And the employers find out when they hire people that...”
• “If present rates of improvement continue, however, we would expect the cruising range of electric cars, for example, to ...”
• “A disruptive innovation is a technologically simple innovation in the form of a product, service, or business model that...”
• “We should always remember that beyond a certain point, hygiene factors such as money, status, compensation, and job secu...”
• “The breakthrough innovations come when the tension is greatest and the resources are most limited. That's when people ar...”
• “As a general rule, when a new industry takes root, and the first products emerge in a wave, almost always the architectu...”
• “Things happen to us in unpredictable ways, but the effect that that has on the kind of people who we become actually is ...”
• “It is hard to overestimate the power of these motivators—the feelings of accomplishment and of learning, of being a key ...”
• “The dumb-manager theory of business problems just didn't hold water for me. There had to be a deeper reason why smart pe...”
• “One quarter of Medicare beneficiaries have five or more chronic conditions, sees an average of 13 physicians each year, ...”
• “No idea for a new growth business ever comes fully shaped. When it emerges, it's half-baked, and it then goes through a ...”
• “These are what Herzberg’s research calls motivators. Motivation factors include challenging work, recognition, responsib...”
• “Disruption is, at its core, a really powerful idea.”