10 Quotes & Sayings By Clayton Christensen

Clayton Christensen is a professor at the Harvard Business School who has written extensively about disruptive innovation, particularly in the areas of product development and business strategy. He is author of The Innovator's Dilemma: When New Technologies Cause Great Firms to Fail, The Innovators: How a Group of Hackers, Geniuses, and Geeks Created the Digital Revolution, and The Innovator's Solution: How High-Tech Companies Create Exceptional Value. He is one of the founders of the Harvard Business School's Technology Management Program (TMP).

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The world is a nested space, and so we have our brain as a person, and people are members of teams, and teams are part of business units, and business units are parts of corporations, and corporations are part of industries, which are part of economies. Clayton Christensen
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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 Christensen
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Each of our children during their high school years went to 'early morning seminary' - scripture study classes that met in the home of a church member every school day morning from 6:30 until 7:15. Clayton Christensen
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I love my life as a missionary, keeping myself on the front lines. The image in my mind is that God, my general, stands at the door when I go out every morning; and, knowing what the war is like, day after day he gives me his most powerful weapon: his Spirit. For this I am grateful. Clayton Christensen
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Whenever we have thanked these men and women for what they have done for us, without exception they have expressed gratitude for having the chance to help - because they grew as they served. Clayton Christensen
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A major driver of the cost of healthcare in the United States is a compromise that was reached with the American Medical Association in the 1960s when Medicare was first established. Clayton Christensen
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The first two lessons, which we learned early in our efforts to be good member missionaries, have made sharing the Gospel much easier: We simply can't predict who will or won't be interested in the Gospel, and building a friendship is not a prerequisite to inviting people to learn about the Gospel. Clayton Christensen
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I don't feel that this concept of disruptive technology is the solution for everybody. But I think it's very important for innovators to understand what we've learned about established companies' motivation to target obvious profitable markets - and about their inability to find emerging ones. The evidence is just overwhelming. Clayton Christensen
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The parents of teenagers would love to have a car that won't go very far or go very fast. They could just cruise around the neighborhood, drive it to school, see their friends, plug it in overnight. Clayton Christensen