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Management is the opportunity to help people become better people. Practiced that way, it's a magnificent profession.

~Clayton Christensen

Topics: Become Better Help Help People Magnificent Management Opportunity People Practiced Profession Way

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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 Christensen

Topics: Become Better Buying Companies Cutting Deal Deals Help Help People Hiring Laying Magnificent Making Management Many Off Opportunity People Practiced Profession Selling Think Way

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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 Christensen

Topics: Away Blow Company Competition Completion Consumer Copy Easy Experiences Give Hard How Integrate Job Needed Processes Product Replicate Sense Very

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The single most important factor in our long-term happiness is the relationships we have with our family and close friends.

~Clayton Christensen

Topics: Close Close Friends Factor Family Friends Happiness Important Long-Term Most Our Relationships Single

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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 Christensen

Topics: Better Doing Done Get Helps Innovation Lives Only People Something Will

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Life is an unending stream of extenuating circumstances.

~Clayton Christensen

Topics: Circumstances Life Stream Unending

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Diabetes is a great example whereby, giving the patient the tools, you can manage yourself very well.

~Clayton Christensen

Topics: Diabetes Example Giving Great Great Example Manage Patient Tools Very Well Whereby You Yourself

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Disruption is a process, not an event, and innovations can only be disruptive relative to something else.

~Clayton Christensen

Topics: Disruption Disruptive Else Event Innovations Only Process Relative Something Something Else

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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 Christensen

Topics: Actually Bad Business Business Model Capitalize Competing Difficult Disruption Disruptive Existing Good Innovations Make Model Processes Reason Them Why

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The concept of disruption is about competitive response; it is not a theory of growth. It's adjacent to growth. But it's not about growth.

~Clayton Christensen

Topics: About Competitive Concept Disruption Growth Response Theory

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Author

Born: April 6th, 1952

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