Clayton M. Christensen Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)

“Holiday Inn comes in at the bottom of the market, but they can't go upmarket except if they emulate the Four Seasons. So they can go up, but they have to emulate the people they're trying to compete against. They can't disrupt them, because there isn't anything about their model that is extendable upmarket.”

“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.”

“An innovation will get traction only if it helps people get something that they're already doing in their lives done better.”

“Colleges would compete by adding professors, enhancing programmes or building nicer facilities. So they competed by making institutions better.”

“Growth makes so many dimensions of management easier. It's when growth stops that things get tough.”

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

“I believe that we can, in a deliberate way, articulate the kind of people we want to become.”

“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.”

“Most people have never thought through how they're going to allocate their time. You need to make a decision in advance.”

“From my first year on the faculty, there was always so much more I wanted to impart to the students. I decided that, rather than waste the last day of class summarizing the semester, I'd spend my time talking about what I'd learned in life that was useful.”