Clayton M. Christensen Quotes

Clayton M. Christensen
American Author
Born: Apr 6, 1952
Become Innovation Life People Will You
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People have an idol they want to be like and try to follow what the idols did. But when you do, you find out you're not very successful and you're not very happy. You try to copy these models, and it doesn't yield successful results. Clayton M. Christensen
You Happy People Try Out Find Follow Results Like Idol Idols Very Yield Did Models Want Successful Copy
Management is the opportunity to help people become better people. Practiced that way, it's a magnificent profession. Clayton M. Christensen
People Management Better Opportunity Become Way Magnificent Practiced Help Help People Profession
The key is not to figure out what the best people are doing and try to emulate it - rather, figure out what causes people and companies to be successful. Clayton M. Christensen
Best People Key Try Out Rather Emulate Doing Causes Successful Figure Companies
Optimizing return on capital will generate less growth than optimizing return on education. Clayton M. Christensen
Education Will Generate Return Than Capital Less Growth
Understanding motivation is one of the most important things we can do in our lives, because it has such a bearing on why we do the things we do and whether we enjoy them or not. Clayton M. Christensen
Important Understanding Important Things Enjoy Our Our Lives Bearing Most Because Motivation The Most Important Whether Them Why Lives Things
Management teams aren't good at asking questions. In business school, we train them to be good at giving answers. Clayton M. Christensen
Good Business Management School Giving Answers Questions Train Them Asking Asking Questions Business School Teams
Companies, in fact, are specifically organized to under-invest in disruptive innovations! This is one reason why we often suggest that companies set up separate teams or groups to commercialize disruptive innovations. When disruptive innovations have to fight with other innovations for resources, they tend to lose out. Clayton M. Christensen
Fight Lose Other Innovations Resources Out Fact Tend Up Often In Fact Separate Organized Reason Companies Teams Groups Why Specifically Suggest Disruptive Set
Diabetes is a great example whereby, giving the patient the tools, you can manage yourself very well. Clayton M. Christensen
Great You Yourself Diabetes Example Giving Patient Tools Great Example Well Very Manage Whereby
The single most important factor in our long-term happiness is the relationships we have with our family and close friends. Clayton M. Christensen
Happiness Family Important Single Relationships Our Factor Long-Term Most Friends Close Close Friends
An innovation will get traction only if it helps people get something that they're already doing in their lives done better. Clayton M. Christensen
Innovation People Better Will Something Only Doing Get Done Helps Lives
I promise my students that if they take the time to figure out their life purpose, they'll look back on it as the most important thing they discovered while at school. If they don't figure it out, they will just sail off without a rudder and get buffeted in the very rough seas of life. Clayton M. Christensen
Life Time School Will Important Sail Rudder Back Out Promise Purpose Take Students Look Most Most Important Thing Without Important Thing Discovered Off Very Get Just The Most Important While Figure Rough Seas Thing
Disruption is a process, not an event, and innovations can only be disruptive relative to something else. Clayton M. Christensen
Else Innovations Relative Something Something Else Only Process Event Disruption Disruptive
Universities think people come up with great ideas by closing the door. The academic tenure process, where you have to publish to journals which are very narrow, stands in the way of great research. Clayton M. Christensen
Great You People Research Publish Think Way Great Ideas Tenure Journals Come Academic Ideas Narrow Up Very Closing Where Door Process Which Stands Universities
Most marketers think there's a concept called a product life cycle. Once you realize that the world is organized by jobs that need to be done, you understand that product life cycles don't exist. Clayton M. Christensen
Life You World Think Once Marketers Jobs Most Concept Understand Exist Done Realize Product Cycle Cycles Organized Need
I got Type 1 diabetes at 30. It hit me in 1982 when I was a White House Fellow in Washington. I had viral pneumonia. I lost 35 pounds in six weeks. And I couldn't see anything. Everything was blurry. I was always thirsty. Clayton M. Christensen
Me Diabetes Lost White White House Viral Type Everything See Weeks Pounds Had House Fellow Always Got Hit Six Anything Washington Thirsty
People don't actually want to think about their own health and don't take action until they are sick. Yet employers are very motivated to get their employees healthy, since they bear most of the burden of their health care costs. Clayton M. Christensen
Health People Burden Care Employees Healthy Own Action Think Sick About Costs Bear Take Since Most Until Employers Health Care Health Care Costs Motivated Very Get Want Actually Care Costs
The principles of disruptive innovation are indeed intended to be guidelines to assist managers both in introducing disruptive innovations as well as identifying disruptive developments in their market. Clayton M. Christensen
Innovation Innovations Market Guidelines Indeed Introducing Both Developments Identifying Well Principles Intended Managers Assist Disruptive
We have found that companies need to speak a common language because some of the suggested ways to harness disruptive innovation are seemingly counterintuitive. If companies don't have that common language, it is hard for them to come to consensus on a counterintuitive course of action. Clayton M. Christensen
Innovation Speak Language Action Harness Ways Some Seemingly Come Course Because Common Common Language Them Hard Companies Found Consensus Suggested Disruptive Need
Life is an unending stream of extenuating circumstances. Clayton M. Christensen
Life Stream Circumstances Unending
India's prosperity is sectioned by geography, such as in Bangalore, where the information technology industry is prominent. Because they have a conduit out of India, competing in the world by the Internet, it's not regulated in corrupt ways, and it is very prosperous. Clayton M. Christensen
Technology World Prosperity Internet Ways Prominent Out India Corrupt Prosperous Industry Because Geography Very Conduit Where Information Information Technology Competing
As I have studied the Bible and the Book of Mormon, I have come to know through the power of the Spirit of God, that these books contain the fullness of the gospel of Jesus Christ. Clayton M. Christensen
God Bible Book Christ Power Books Spirit Mormon Through Studied Contain Come Know Gospel Fullness Jesus Jesus Christ
We don't hire ministers or priests to teach and care for us. This forces us to teach and care for each other - and in my view, this is the core of Christian living as Christ taught it. Clayton M. Christensen
Christ Care Living Christian Other Ministers Priests Forces Hire Taught Us View Teach Each Core
I have healed the sick by the power of the God. I have spoken with the gift of tongues. Clayton M. Christensen
God Gift Power Sick Spoken Healed Tongues
I have been blessed to see visions of eternity; and events in my future that have been important for me to foresee, have been revealed to me. Clayton M. Christensen
Future Me Events Blessed Important Visions See Revealed Been Foresee Eternity
The path I am trying so hard to follow is in fact the one that God my Father and His Son Jesus Christ want me to pursue. It has brought me deep happiness. Clayton M. Christensen
Happiness God Me Son Path Christ Father Follow Brought Fact Pursue Am His Trying In Fact Want Hard Deep Jesus Jesus Christ
This is why I belong, and why I believe. I commend to all this same search for happiness and for the truth. Clayton M. Christensen
Happiness Truth Believe Commend Same Search Why Belong
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