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'Disruption' is, at its core, a really powerful idea. Everyone hijacks the idea to do whatever they want now. It's the same way people hijacked the word 'paradigm' to justify lame things they're trying to sell to mankind.

~Clayton Christensen

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I love my life as a missionary, keeping myself on the front lines. The image in my mind is that God, my general, stands at the door when I go out every morning; and, knowing what the war is like, day after day he gives me his most powerful weapon: his Spirit. For this I am grateful.

~Clayton Christensen

Topics: After Am Day Door Every Front Front Lines General Gives Go God Grateful He His Image Keeping Knowing Life Like Lines Love Me Mind Missionary Morning Most Most Powerful My Life Myself Out Powerful Powerful Weapon Spirit Stands War Weapon I Am I Love

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People who have the drive to achieve spend most of their time on what brings them the most tangible, immediate sense of success. Investments in our family only pay off in the very long term.

~Clayton 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 Christensen

Topics: Bearing Because Enjoy Important Important Things Lives Most Motivation Our Our Lives The Most Important Them Things Understanding Whether Why

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We need to have an understanding of what causes what to happen in the world, and why.

~Clayton Christensen

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When an entrant competitor attacks the low end of any market, the rational reaction of the incumbent firms is to abandon rather than defend it - because the low end is the least profitable of their possible investments.

~Clayton Christensen

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Management teams aren't good at asking questions. In business school, we train them to be good at giving answers.

~Clayton Christensen

Topics: Answers Asking Asking Questions Business Business School Giving Good Management Questions School Teams Them Train

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In the universities, we teach you what we decide you need to know. And the employers find out when they hire people that students didn't learn what we needed them to learn. Online learning offerings, like the University of Phoenix, have relationships with employers and teach what you need to know.

~Clayton Christensen

Topics: Decide Employers Find Hire Know Learn Learning Like Need Needed Online Out People Phoenix Relationships Students Teach Them Universities University You

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What's unique about the Mormon Church is that it encourages inquiry. I really do think my research and religion are all on the same page. I never could have come up with the notion of disruptive innovations, which went against a lot of conventional wisdom, if I hadn't been raised to always be asking questions.

~Clayton Christensen

Topics: About Against Always Asking Asking Questions Been Church Come Conventional Conventional Wisdom Could Disruptive Encourages Innovations Inquiry Lot Mormon Never Notion Page Questions Raised Really Religion Research Same Same Page Think Unique Up Which Wisdom

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Relative to the taxi industry, Uber is a sustaining innovation; that is, it makes customers' lives better. Uber targeted mainstream markets with a better service for existing customers, and it succeeded in serving them better than the incumbents.

~Clayton Christensen

Topics: Better Customers Existing Industry Innovation Lives Mainstream Makes Markets Relative Service Serving Succeeded Sustaining Targeted Taxi Than Them Uber

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Author

Born: April 6th, 1952

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