Best quotes by Clayton M. Christensen on People

Checkout quotes by Clayton M. Christensen on People

  • Management is the opportunity to help people become better people. Practiced that way, it's a magnificent profession.
    - Clayton M. Christensen
  • An innovation will get traction only if it helps people get something that they're already doing in their lives done better.
    - Clayton M. Christensen
  • 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
  • 'Disruption' is, at its core, a really powerful idea. Everyone hijacks the idea to do whatever they want now. It's the same way people hijacked the word 'paradigm' to justify lame things they're trying to sell to mankind.
    - Clayton M. Christensen
  • Many think of management as cutting deals and laying people off and hiring people and buying and selling companies. That's not management, that's deal making. Management is the opportunity to help people become better people. Practiced that way, it's a magnificent profession.
    - Clayton M. Christensen
  • In the universities, we teach you what we decide you need to know. And the employers find out when they hire people that students didn't learn what we needed them to learn. Online learning offerings, like the University of Phoenix, have relationships with employers and teach what you need to know.
    - Clayton M. Christensen
  • 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.
    - Clayton M. Christensen