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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
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I believe that we can, in a deliberate way, articulate the kind of people we want to become. - Clayton M. 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 M. Christensen
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Smart companies fail because they do everything right. They cater to high-profit-margin customers and ignore the low end of the market, where disruptive innovations emerge from. - Clayton M. Christensen
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Many think of management as cutting deals and laying people off and hiring people and buying and selling companies. That's not management, that's deal making. Management is the opportunity to help people become better people. Practiced that way, it's a magnificent profession. - Clayton M. Christensen
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The reason why it is so difficult for existing firms to capitalize on disruptive innovations is that their processes and their business model that make them good at the existing business actually make them bad at competing for the disruption. - Clayton M. Christensen
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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
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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 M. Christensen
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American capitalists, enthralled by the doctrines of finance, have put their income statements in service of the balance sheet. - Clayton M. Christensen
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When you improve your product so it does the customer's job better, then you gain market share. - Clayton M. Christensen
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Efficiency innovations are a natural part of the economic cycle, but these are the innovations that streamline process and actually reduce the number of available jobs. - Clayton M. Christensen
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People in private equity complain that they have so much capital and so few places to invest. But you have lots of entrepreneurs trying to raise money at the low end and find that they can't get funding because of this mismatch. I think that there is an opportunity there. - Clayton M. Christensen
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I have healed the sick by the power of the God. I have spoken with the gift of tongues. - Clayton M. Christensen
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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
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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
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Almost always, great new ideas don't emerge from within a single person or function, but at the intersection of functions or people that have never met before. - Clayton M. Christensen
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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
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Disruption is a process, not an event, and innovations can only be disruptive relative to something else. - Clayton M. Christensen
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You may hate gravity, but gravity doesn't care. - Clayton M. Christensen
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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 product is easy to copy, but experiences are very hard to replicate. - Clayton M. Christensen
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Management is the opportunity to help people become better people. Practiced that way, it's a magnificent profession. - Clayton M. Christensen
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Life is an unending stream of extenuating circumstances. - Clayton M. Christensen
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There is no single right answer or path forward, but there is one right way to frame the problem. - Clayton M. Christensen
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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 leaders in an industry. - Clayton M. Christensen
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