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" 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. "

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" Eighty percent of the cases used in the typical MBA program are about successful companies. Students graduate with this notion that 'If I do everything that the people in those cases did, then my organization will grow and be successful, too.' "

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People

Grow

Successful

" 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

Understanding

Motivation

Why

" In an environment where you've got to push innovations out the door fast and keep the cost of innovation low, the probability that you'll be successful is actually much higher. "

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Innovation

Door

Environment

" Children are ready to learn when they are ready to learn, not necessarily when their parents are ready to teach them. "

Clayton M. Christensen

Teach

Ready

Parents

" Disruption is continuously afoot in every industry, but especially in autos. It is how Toyota, Nissan and Honda bloodied Detroit: They did not start their attack with Lexus, Infiniti and Acura, but with low-end subcompact models branded Corona, Datsun and CVCC. "

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How

Start

" I talk to our kids now that they are grown up, and I ask them about the experiences that had growing up that really had a powerful influence on the way they view the purpose of life. The experiences that really shaped their values - my wife and I have no memory of those experiences! "

Clayton M. Christensen

Life

Wife

Memory

" The way I ought to measure my life is in terms of the others I helped to become better and happier people. That's the biggest thing to think about if you're not happy. "

Clayton M. Christensen

My Life

Life

Think

" The mistake that makes launching a venture expensive is when you try to make a disruptive technology so good that it can compete on a quality basis with an established product. "

Clayton M. Christensen

Technology

Quality

Mistake

" When considering a career move, consider the most important assumptions that have to prove true and how you can swiftly and inexpensively test if they are valid. Also, remain realistic about the path ahead of you. "

Clayton M. Christensen

Career

Test

You

" There are three types of innovations that affect jobs and capital: empowering innovations, sustaining innovations and efficiency innovations. "

Clayton M. Christensen

Affect

Three

Efficiency

" I promise my students that if they take the time to figure out their life purpose, they'll look back on it as the most important thing they discovered while at school. If they don't figure it out, they will just sail off without a rudder and get buffeted in the very rough seas of life. "

Clayton M. Christensen

Sail

Look

Purpose

" The iPod is a proprietary integrated product, although that is becoming quite modular. You can download your music from Amazon as easily as you can from iTunes. You also see modularity organized around the Android operating system that is growing much faster than the iPhone. So I worry that modularity will do its work on Apple. "

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Growing

Worry

Apple

" Innovation almost always is not successful the first time out. You try something, and it doesn't work, and it takes confidence to say we haven't failed yet... Ultimately, you become commercially successful. "

Clayton M. Christensen

Confidence

Innovation

Work

" To focus capital and entrepreneurship into empowering innovation, we should change is the capital gains tax rate. We would be better served by a regressive tax rate, that would become progressively smaller the longer the investment is held. "

Clayton M. Christensen

Better

Innovation

Tax

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

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Higher Education

Years

Core

" 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. "

Clayton M. Christensen

Children

Day

Home

" If you're successful and growing, you can manage any way you want to. Growth makes so many dimensions of management easier. It's when growth stops that things get tough. "

Clayton M. Christensen

Growing

Growth

Management

" Efficiency innovations are a natural part of the economic cycle, but these are the innovations that streamline process and actually reduce the number of available jobs. "

Clayton M. Christensen

Natural

Economic

Efficiency

" I don't feel that this concept of disruptive technology is the solution for everybody. But I think it's very important for innovators to understand what we've learned about established companies' motivation to target obvious profitable markets - and about their inability to find emerging ones. The evidence is just overwhelming. "

Clayton M. Christensen

Motivation

Important

Think

" Inviting others to help us with our work in the Church helps them feel needed and helps them feel the Spirit. When these feelings come, many people often then realize that something has been missing from their lives. "

Clayton M. Christensen

Work

Church

Feelings

" When you're thinking about your next product or current product and wondering how to make it different so you don't have competition, understand the job the customer needs to get done. "

Clayton M. Christensen

You

Done

Competition

" Having a loving relationship with our spouse or with our children is what leads to the long-term happiness we all seek. "

Clayton M. Christensen

Happiness

Seek

Relationship

" 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

People

Always

Ideas

" 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. "

Clayton M. Christensen

Future

Important

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

Clayton M. Christensen

Fail

Why

Harvard

" No idea for a new growth business ever comes fully shaped. When it emerges, it's half-baked, and it then goes through a process of becoming fully shaped. "

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Business

Process

New

" 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

Teach

Wife

Front

" The whole enterprise of teaching managers is steeped in the ethic of data-driven analytical support. The problem is, the data is only available about the past. So the way we've taught managers to make decisions and consultants to analyze problems condemns them to taking action when it's too late. "

Clayton M. Christensen

Past

Problems

Data

" The process of writing 'The Innovator's Dilemma' entailed the developing a new theory. My colleagues, students and I have been improving that theory, and adding others to it, since that time. "

Clayton M. Christensen

New

Writing

Colleagues

" If you understand cause and effect, it brings about a set of insights that leads you to a very different place. The knowledge will persuade you that the market isn't organized by customer category or by product category. If you understand the job that consumers need to complete, you can articulate all of the experiences in that job. "

Clayton M. Christensen

Place

Customer

Job