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" I have continued systematically to study the Book of Mormon and Bible to understand even more deeply what God expects of me and my family while on this earth. "
Clayton M. Christensen
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" 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. "
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" I'd been raised Mormon, but there comes a time where you are not following what you've been taught, but discovering for yourself if it's true. "
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Where
True
" People have an idol they want to be like and try to follow what the idols did. But when you do, you find out you're not very successful and you're not very happy. You try to copy these models, and it doesn't yield successful results. "
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" 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
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" We are awash in content that needs to be taught, yet the vast majority of colleges give a large portion of their faculties' salaries to fund research. "
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Needs
Majority
" Growth makes so many dimensions of management easier. It's when growth stops that things get tough. "
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Tough
Things
Management
" American capitalists, enthralled by the doctrines of finance, have put their income statements in service of the balance sheet. "
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American
Finance
" People under-invest in family because it doesn't pay off until the long term. "
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Family
People
Pay
" The financial doctrines so zealously followed by American companies might help optimize capital when it is scarce. But capital is abundant. If we are to see our economy really grow, we need to encourage migratory capital to become productive capital - capital invested for the long-term in empowering innovations. "
Clayton M. Christensen
Need
American
Financial
" Efficiency innovations arise in industries that already exist. They provide existing goods and services at much lower costs. They are not empowering. Efficiency innovators become the low cost providers within an existing framework. "
Clayton M. Christensen
Cost
Become
Within
" 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
People
Business
Breakthrough
" People in private equity complain that they have so much capital and so few places to invest. But you have lots of entrepreneurs trying to raise money at the low end and find that they can't get funding because of this mismatch. I think that there is an opportunity there. "
Clayton M. Christensen
Money
End
Opportunity
" We have found that companies need to speak a common language because some of the suggested ways to harness disruptive innovation are seemingly counterintuitive. If companies don't have that common language, it is hard for them to come to consensus on a counterintuitive course of action. "
Clayton M. Christensen
Action
Innovation
Language
" Management is getting people together to figure out how to transform inputs into outputs. In the process of figuring out the process of how people work together, you've got to figure out who's got what responsibilities, and how do they work together. "
Clayton M. Christensen
Together
You
Work
" Do not be deceived by impostors. "
Clayton M. Christensen
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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 M. Christensen
You
Want
Time
" The ability to share the gospel isn't a 'gift' that has been given to only a few Latter-day Saints and denied to the rest. "
Clayton M. Christensen
Ability
Share
Rest
" Companies, in fact, are specifically organized to under-invest in disruptive innovations! This is one reason why we often suggest that companies set up separate teams or groups to commercialize disruptive innovations. When disruptive innovations have to fight with other innovations for resources, they tend to lose out. "
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Resources
Lose
Reason
" Empowering innovations transform something that is complicated and expensive into something that is so much more simple and affordable that a much larger population can enjoy it. "
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Enjoy
Simple
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" We don't hire ministers or priests to teach and care for us. This forces us to teach and care for each other - and in my view, this is the core of Christian living as Christ taught it. "
Clayton M. Christensen
Care
View
Living
" The concept of disruption is about competitive response; it is not a theory of growth. It's adjacent to growth. But it's not about growth. "
Clayton M. Christensen
Competitive
Growth
Theory
" 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
" If you develop a product that gets what the customer is trying to get done, you don't have to advertise; people will just pull it into their lives. "
Clayton M. Christensen
You
Customer
Done
" 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 M. Christensen
Happy
Be Happy
Me
" Most people have never thought through how they're going to allocate their time. You need to make a decision in advance. "
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People
You
Time
" The Republicans are wrong in thinking that the rich create jobs. In reality, many of the richest Americans have been investing in efficiency innovations rather than to create jobs. And the Democrats are wrong, because growth won't happen if they distribute the wealth of the wealthy to everyone else. "
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Reality
Wealth
Thinking
" Diabetes is a great example whereby, giving the patient the tools, you can manage yourself very well. "
Clayton M. Christensen
Yourself
You
Great
" 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. "
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You
Done
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" 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. "
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People
Always
Ideas
" The principles of disruptive innovation are indeed intended to be guidelines to assist managers both in introducing disruptive innovations as well as identifying disruptive developments in their market. "
Clayton M. Christensen
Principles
Innovation
Disruptive