Clayton M. Christensen Quotes

Quote of the Day Fresh quotes Topics Authors I'm Feeling Lucky Disable ads! 30 quotes by Clayton M. Christensen Clayton M. Christensen (born April 6, 1952) is the Kim B. Clark Professor of Business Administration at the Harvard Business School (HBS), with a joint appointment in the Technology & Operations Management and General Management faculty groups. He is best known for his study of innovation in commercial enterprises. His first book, The Innovator's Dilemma, articulated his theory of disruptive innovation. Christensen is also a co-founder of... Read full biography of Clayton M. Christensen → 1 2 3 Ctrl → When a company identifies how to integrate the processes needed to give the consumer a sense of job completion, it can blow away the competition. A... → 0 The whole enterprise of teaching managers is steeped in the ethic of data-driven analytical support. The problem is, the data is only available about... → 0 By doing what they must do to keep their margins strong and their stock price healthy, every company paves the way for its own disruption. 0 There are direct paths to a successful career. But there are plenty of indirect paths, too. 0 Many think of management as cutting deals and laying people off and hiring people and buying and selling companies. That's not management... → 0 An innovation will get traction only if it helps people get something that they're already doing in their lives done better. 0 Colleges would compete by adding professors, enhancing programmes or building nicer facilities. So they competed by making institutions better. 0 I believe that we can, in a deliberate way, articulate the kind of people we want to become. 0 As a general rule, if you have a product that doesn't get the job done that a customer is needing to get done, then often you have to offer it... → 0 As a general rule, when a new industry takes root, and the first products emerge in a wave, almost always the architecture of the product will be... → 0 From my first year on the faculty, there was always so much more I wanted to impart to the students. I decided that, rather than waste the last day... → 0 One of the banes of successful innovation is that companies may be so committed to innovation that they will give the innovators a lot of money to... → 0 The dumb-manager theory of business problems just didn't hold water for me. There had to be a deeper reason why smart people would make decisions... → 0 1 2 3 Ctrl → Add a quote!


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30 quotes by Clayton M. Christensen