Clayton M. Christensen Quotes & Sayings (Page 5)

“The key is not to figure out what the best people are doing and try to emulate it - rather, figure out what causes people and companies to be successful.”

“The world is a nested space, and so we have our brain as a person, and people are members of teams, and teams are part of business units, and business units are parts of corporations, and corporations are part of industries, which are part of economies.”

“There are a lot of companies - not just Sony and Kodak - that have spent a lot of money trying to make the quality of the digital images comparable with film. But when you're sending these things over the Internet, they don't have to be high quality.”

“Things happen to us in unpredictable ways, but the effect that that has on the kind of people who we become actually is not only open to chance - we can influence it in pretty profound ways.”

“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.”