Its actually really important that you succeed at what youre succeeding at, but that isnt going to be the measure of your life.
Clayton ChristensenAlmost 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 ChristensenWe have found that companies need to speak a common language, because some of the suggested ways to harness disruptive innovation are seemingly counter-intuitive. If companies don't have that common language, it is hard for them to come to consensus on a counter-intuitive course of action.
Clayton ChristensenI 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 ChristensenYear after year after year, people write books about managing innovation or about leadership, for example, without ever going through the pain of saying, "This kind of leadership will cause this result in these circumstances and a very different result in those circumstances." This is academic malpractice of the worst kind.
Clayton ChristensenIt's like in biological evolution: The population will evolve, even though individuals can't. The same thing happens in the corporate world: The population of business units within corporations evolves, even though individual business units can't. That's because the capabilities of business units reside in their processes and their values, and by their very nature, processes and values are inflexible and meant not to change.
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