My wife comes most of the times I teach and stands on the front row to help me. She’s been wonderfully supportive. Clayton M. Christensen Read Quote
By definition, big data cannot yield complicated descriptions of causality. Especially in healthcare. Almost all of our diseases occur in the intersections of systems in the body. Clayton M. Christensen Read Quote
I helped start a ceramics company called CPS Technologies. We took it public in 1987 at $12 a share. Three months later, there was this horrible cliff: Black Monday. Fidelity had bought 15 percent of our stock, and their algorithm caused them to dump it all onto the market that day. We dropped from $12 to $2. Clayton M. Christensen Read Quote
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 M. Christensen Read Quote
Disruption is a process, not an event, and innovations can only be disruptive relative to something else. Clayton M. Christensen Read Quote
I felt that I could look back on my life and think about lots of folks that I helped become better folks. And I’ve tried to be as good a man as I could be. Clayton M. Christensen Read Quote
I wrote my first piece about the disruption of the Harvard Business School in 1999. Because you could see this coming. I haven’t yet done the one about the disruption of the Stanford Business School. Clayton M. Christensen Read Quote
When you improve your product so it does the customer’s job better, then you gain market share. Clayton M. Christensen Read Quote
If we are to develop profound theory to solve the intractable problems in our societally-critical domains… we must learn to crawl into the life of what makes people tick. Clayton M. Christensen Read Quote
I think this is one reason why the Lord invented the Internet – so members can teach one another how to succeed in assignments the Lord has given us, and to give us opportunities to inspire and bear testimony in a horizontal way. Clayton M. Christensen Read Quote
