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This is why I belong, and why I believe. I commend to all this same search for happiness and for the truth.

~Clayton Christensen

Topics: Believe Belong Commend Happiness Same Search Truth Why I Believe

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I'd been raised Mormon, but there comes a time where you are not following what you've been taught, but discovering for yourself if it's true.

~Clayton Christensen

Topics: Been Discovering Following Mormon Raised Taught Time True Where You Yourself

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I brought one big question with me to Harvard. Why do smart companies fail?

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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.

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Topics: Because Cater Companies Customers Disruptive Emerge End Everything Fail Ignore Innovations Low Market Right Smart Where

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I had a horrible heart attack and still have symptoms of that sometimes. Then cancer, which is in remission. But the stroke is the hardest thing because I just lost my ability to speak and to write.

~Clayton Christensen

Topics: Ability Attack Because Cancer Had Hardest Hardest Thing Heart Horrible Just Lost Remission Sometimes Speak Still Stroke Symptoms The Hardest Thing Then Thing Which Write

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Colleges would compete by adding professors, enhancing programmes or building nicer facilities. So they competed by making institutions better.

~Clayton Christensen

Topics: Adding Better Building Colleges Compete Enhancing Facilities Institutions Making Nicer Professors Programmes Would

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We are awash in content that needs to be taught, yet the vast majority of colleges give a large portion of their faculties' salaries to fund research.

~Clayton Christensen

Topics: Colleges Content Faculties Fund Give Large Majority Needs Portion Research Salaries Taught Vast Vast Majority

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Holiday Inn comes in at the bottom of the market, but they can't go upmarket except if they emulate the Four Seasons. So they can go up, but they have to emulate the people they're trying to compete against. They can't disrupt them, because there isn't anything about their model that is extendable upmarket.

~Clayton Christensen

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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 Christensen

Topics: Almost Always Architecture Character Emerge First General General Rule Industry Interdependent New Product Products Proprietary Root Rule Takes Wave Will

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As a general rule, if you have a product that doesn't get the job done that a customer is needing to get done, then often you have to offer it for zero. Because if you ask for money for it - because if it doesn't do the job well, they won't pay for it.

~Clayton Christensen

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Author

Born: April 6th, 1952

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