“ Resources are what he uses to do it, processes are how he does it, and priorities are why he does it. Clayton M. Christensen
“ Research has shown, in fact, that the vast majority of successful new business ventures abandoned their original business strategies when they began implementing their initial plans and learned what w… Clayton M. Christensen
“ For 300 years, higher education was not disruptable because there was no technological core. Clayton M. Christensen
“ Intimate, loving, and enduring relationships with our family and close friends will be among the sources of the deepest joy in our lives. Clayton M. Christensen
“ 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 proprietary and interdependent in character. Clayton M. Christensen
“ A disruptive innovation is a technologically simple innovation in the form of a product, service, or business model that takes root in a tier of the market that is unattractive to the established lead… Clayton M. Christensen
“ American capitalists, enthralled by the doctrines of finance, have put their income statements in service of the balance sheet. Clayton M. Christensen
“ The breakthrough innovations come when the tension is greatest and the resources are most limited. That's when people are actually a lot more open to rethinking the fundamental way they do business. Clayton M. Christensen
“ There are more than 9,000 billing codes for individual procedures and units of care. But there is not a single billing code for patient adherence or improvement, or for helping patients stay well. Clayton M. Christensen
“ No idea for a new growth business ever comes fully shaped. When it emerges, it's half-baked, and it then goes through a process of becoming fully shaped. Clayton M. Christensen
“ Things happen to us in unpredictable ways, but the effect that that has on the kind of people who we become actually is not only open to chance - we can influence it in pretty profound ways. Clayton M. Christensen
“ The single most important factor in our long-term happiness is the relationships we have with our family and close friends. Clayton M. Christensen
“ In the early stage, managers are puzzle solvers, not number crunchers. Passive Clayton M. Christensen
“ Sound managerial decisions are at the very root of their impending fall from industry leadership. Clayton M. Christensen
“ Correlation is enough, 2 then-Wired editor in chief Chris Anderson famously declared in 2008. We can, he implied, solve innovation problems by the sheer brute force of the data deluge. Ever since Mich… Clayton M. Christensen
“ The most calamitous failures of prediction usually have a lot in common. We focus on those signals that tell a story about the world as we would like it to be, not how it really is. Clayton M. Christensen
“ 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 that lead to failure. Clayton M. Christensen
“ None of that data, however, actually tells you why customers make the choices that they do. Clayton M. Christensen
