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People don't actually want to think about their own health and don't take action until they are sick. Yet employers are very motivated to get their employees healthy, since they bear most of the burden of their health care costs.

~Clayton Christensen

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Many of the factors that we think will cause motivation, such as fair pay and a good manager, won't make you love your job. Even if you eliminate what makes you dissatisfied, that doesn't make you motivated. It doesn't make your work rewarding. You just are less bothered by things.

~Clayton Christensen

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There is no single right answer or path forward, but there is one right way to frame the problem.

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In the scriptures, we are told you can't really understand happiness unless you understand sadness. You don't know pleasure if you don't know pain. It's part of life. So can you learn something from somebody who has gone from success to success to success? I don't think so.

~Clayton Christensen

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Most people have never thought through how they're going to allocate their time. You need to make a decision in advance.

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Empowering innovations transform something that is complicated and expensive into something that is so much more simple and affordable that a much larger population can enjoy it.

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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.

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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.

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When you improve your product so it does the customer's job better, then you gain market share.

~Clayton Christensen

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I believe that we can, in a deliberate way, articulate the kind of people we want to become.

~Clayton Christensen

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Author

Born: April 6th, 1952

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