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Things happen to us in unpredictable ways, but the effect that that has on the kind of people who we become actually is not only open to chance - we can influence it in pretty profound ways.

~Clayton Christensen

Topics: Actually Become Chance Effect Happen Influence Kind Only Open People Pretty Profound Things Things Happen Unpredictable Us Ways Who

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The world is a nested space, and so we have our brain as a person, and people are members of teams, and teams are part of business units, and business units are parts of corporations, and corporations are part of industries, which are part of economies.

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What the purpose of my life is about is I want to become the kind of person that God wants me to become, and through my study of the scriptures I can articulate the kind of person that God would be happy if I become.

~Clayton Christensen

Topics: About Articulate Be Happy Become God Happy Kind Life Me My Life Person Purpose Scriptures Study Through Want Wants Would I Can

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The dumb-manager theory of business problems just didn't hold water for me. There had to be a deeper reason why smart people would make decisions that lead to failure.

~Clayton Christensen

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By doing what they must do to keep their margins strong and their stock price healthy, every company paves the way for its own disruption.

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Topics: Company Disruption Doing Every Healthy Keep Margins Must Own Price Stock Strong Way

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Growth makes so many dimensions of management easier. It's when growth stops that things get tough.

~Clayton Christensen

Topics: Dimensions Easier Get Growth Makes Management Many Stops Things Tough

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To become the kind of person you want to become, you've got to have discipline. It's easier to keep to your standards 100 percent of the time versus 98 percent of the time.

~Clayton Christensen

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In our personal lives, we have a lot of businesses going on. I have a profession, I'm a father, a spouse, a good member of my community. How much of my time and energy can I allocate to each of those things? What I allocate becomes the strategy I have for my family, and everything else.

~Clayton Christensen

Topics: Allocate Becomes Businesses Community Each Else Energy Everything Everything Else Family Father Going Good How How Much Lives Lot Member Much My Time Our Personal Personal Lives Profession Spouse Strategy Things Those Time

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For 300 years, higher education was not disruptable because there was no technological core.

~Clayton Christensen

Topics: Because Core Education Higher Higher Education Technological Years

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In a healthy economy, empowering, sustaining and efficiency innovations operate in balance. A healthy economy creates and sustains more jobs before squeezing out inefficiencies.

~Clayton Christensen

Topics: Balance Before Creates Economy Efficiency Empowering Healthy Innovations Jobs More Operate Out Sustaining Sustains

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Author

Born: April 6th, 1952

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