The breakthrough innovations come when the tension is greatest and the resources are most limited. That’s when people are actually a lot more open to rethinking the fundamental way they do business. Clayton M. Christensen Read Quote
An innovation will get traction only if it helps people get something that they’re already doing in their lives done better. Clayton M. Christensen Read Quote
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. Clayton M. Christensen Read Quote
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 M. Christensen Read Quote
A disruptive innovation is a technologically simple innovation in the form of a product, service, or business model that takes root in a tier of the market that is unattractive to the established leaders in an industry. Clayton M. Christensen Read Quote
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 M. Christensen Read Quote
Diabetes is a great example whereby, giving the patient the tools, you can manage yourself very well. Clayton M. Christensen Read Quote
Almost always, great new ideas don’t emerge from within a single person or function, but at the intersection of functions or people that have never met before. Clayton M. Christensen Read Quote
There are three types of innovations that affect jobs and capital: empowering innovations, sustaining innovations and efficiency innovations. Clayton M. Christensen Read Quote
India’s prosperity is sectioned by geography, such as in Bangalore, where the information technology industry is prominent. Because they have a conduit out of India, competing in the world by the Internet, it’s not regulated in corrupt ways, and it is very prosperous. Clayton M. Christensen Read Quote
