It is time to create new social science departments that reflect the breadth and complexity of the problems we face as well as the novelty of... →
Nicholas A. Christakis
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... →
Clayton Christensen
If you make that decision, that you'll always follow that rule, then your commitment to do it sinks into your heart, and when you realize the... →
I'd been raised Mormon, but there comes a time where you are not following what you've been taught, but discovering for yourself if it's... →
Innovation almost always is not successful the first time out. You try something, and it doesn't work, and it takes confidence to say we... →
Managers are already voracious consumers of theory. Every time they make a decision or take action, it's based on some theory that leads them to... →
People who have the drive to achieve spend most of their time on what brings them the most tangible, immediate sense of success. Investments in our... →
The process of writing 'The Innovator's Dilemma' entailed the developing a new theory. My colleagues, students and I have been improving... →
To become the kind of person you want to become, you've got to have discipline. It's easier to keep to your standards 100 percent of the time... →
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... →
Clayton M. Christensen