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Efficiency innovations provide return on investment in 12-18 months. Empowering innovations take 5-10 years to yield a return. We have ample capital - oceans of capital - that is being reinvested into efficiency innovation.

~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

Topics: American Association Compromise Cost Driver Established First Healthcare Major Medical Medicare Reached States United United States 1960S

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Funding that is focused on the ability to diagnose diseases precisely will just have inestimable value because that's the gate through which precision medicine has to go. Unless you can diagnose the disease precisely, care has to remain in the hands of expensive institutions and expensive caregivers.

~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

Topics: About Building Early Easier Efforts First Friendship Good Gospel Interested Inviting Learn Learned Lessons Made Member Missionaries Much Our People Predict Prerequisite Sharing Simply Two Which Who Will

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Inviting others to help us with our work in the Church helps them feel needed and helps them feel the Spirit. When these feelings come, many people often then realize that something has been missing from their lives.

~Clayton Christensen

Topics: Been Church Come Feel Feelings Help Helps Inviting Lives Many Missing Needed Often Others Our People Realize Something Spirit Them Then Us Work

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When you're thinking about your next product or current product and wondering how to make it different so you don't have competition, understand the job the customer needs to get done.

~Clayton Christensen

Topics: About Competition Current Customer Different Done Get How Job Make Needs Next Product Thinking Understand Wondering You Your

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If we are to develop profound theory to solve the intractable problems in our societally-critical domains... we must learn to crawl into the life of what makes people tick.

~Clayton Christensen

Topics: Crawl Develop Learn Life Makes Must Our People Problems Profound Solve Theory Tick

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Having a loving relationship with our spouse or with our children is what leads to the long-term happiness we all seek.

~Clayton Christensen

Topics: Children Happiness Having Leads Long-Term Loving Our Relationship Seek Spouse

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Capitalists seem uninterested in capitalism, even as eager entrepreneurs can't get financing. Businesses and investors sound like the Ancient Mariner, who complained, 'Water, water everywhere - nor any drop to drink.'

~Clayton Christensen

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The paradox explored in my book 'The Innovator's Dilemma' is that successful companies can fail by making the 'right' decisions in the wrong situations.

~Clayton Christensen

Topics: Book Companies Decisions Dilemma Explored Fail Innovator Making Paradox Right Situations Successful Wrong

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Author

Born: April 6th, 1952

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