289 Quotes by Clayton M. Christensen

Each of our children during their high school years went to ‘early morning seminary’ – scripture study classes that met in the home of a church member every school day morning from 6:30 until 7:15.

New products succeed not because of the features and functionality they offer but because of the experiences they enable. If.

Sound managerial decisions are at the very root of their impending fall from industry leadership.

I have been blessed to see visions of eternity; and events in my future that have been important for me to foresee, have been revealed to me.

An innovation will get traction only if it helps people get something that they’re already doing in their lives done better.

The trap many people fall into is to allocate their time to whoever screams loudest, and their talent to whatever offers them the fastest reward. That’s a dangerous way to build a strategy.

Necessity remains the mother of invention.

In our lives and in our careers, whether we are aware of it or not, we are constantly navigating a path by deciding between our deliberate strategies and the unanticipated alternatives that emerge.

On the one hand, if you have a strategy that really is working, you need to deliberately focus to keep everyone working together in the right direction. At the same time, however, that focus can easily cause you to dismiss as a distraction what could actually turn out to be the next big thing.