Clayton Christensen quotes

Every time you take someone figuratively by the hand and introduce him or her to Jesus Christ, you will feel how deeply our Savior loves you and loves the person whose hand is in yours.
-- Clayton Christensen

#Jesus #Love You #Hands

The path I am trying so hard to follow is in fact the one that God my Father and His Son Jesus Christ want me to pursue. It has brought me deep happiness.
-- Clayton Christensen

#Jesus #Father #Son

Think about the metric by which your life will be judged, and make a resolution to live every day so that in the end, your life will be judged a success.
-- Clayton Christensen

#Thinking #Metrics #Resolution

Decide what you stand for. And then stand for it all the time.
-- Clayton Christensen

#Business

Disruptive innovations create jobs, efficiency innovations destroy them.
-- Clayton Christensen

#Jobs #Innovation #Efficiency

Don't worry about the level of individual prominence you have achieved; worry about the individuals you have helped become better people.
-- Clayton Christensen

#People #Worry #Growth

Questions are places in your mind where answers fit. If you haven't asked the question, the answer has nowhere to go. It hits your mind and bounces right off. You have to ask the question - you have to want to know - in order to open up the space for the answer to fit.
-- Clayton Christensen

#Order #Space #Mind

I've concluded that the metric by which God will assess my life isn't dollars, but the individual people whose lives I've touched. I think that's the way it will work for us all. Don't worry about the level of individual prominence you have achieved; worry about the individuals you have helped become better people.
-- Clayton Christensen

#Thinking #People #Worry

Breaking an old business model is always going to require leaders to follow their instinct. There will always be persuasive reasons not to take a risk. But if you only do what worked in the past, you will wake up one day and find that you’ve been passed by.
-- Clayton Christensen

#Past #Leader #Risk

Intimate, loving, and enduring relationships with our family and close friends will be among the sources of the deepest joy in our lives.
-- Clayton Christensen

#Joy #Close Friends #Intimate

You can talk all you want about having a clear purpose and strategy for your life, but ultimately this means nothing if you are not investing the resources you have in a way that is consistent with your strategy. In the end, a strategy is nothing but good intentions unless it's effectively implemented.
-- Clayton Christensen

#Mean #Investing #Want

You can't find returns in investments you haven't made.
-- Clayton Christensen

#Return #Investment #Made

Because if the decisions you make about where you invest your blood, sweat, and tears are not consistent with the person you aspire to be, you’ll never become that person.
-- Clayton Christensen

#Blood #Sweat #Decision

Steve Jobs and Apple taught us that profit is not the ultimate goal, but rather a consequence of something greater.
-- Clayton Christensen

#Jobs #Apples #Goal

When I have my interview with my God, our conversation will focus on the individuals whose self-esteem I was able to strengthen, whose faith I was able to reinforce, and whose discomfort I was able to assuage—a doer of good, regardless of what assignment I had. These are the metrics of that matter in measuring my life. This realization, which occurred nearly fifteen years ago, guided me every day to seek opportunities to help people in ways tailored to their individual circumstances. My happiness and my sense of worth has been immeasurably improved as a result.
-- Clayton Christensen

#Self Esteem #Opportunity #Years

There are more than 9,000 billing codes for individual procedures and units of care. But there is not a single billing code for patient adherence or improvement, or for helping patients stay well.
-- Clayton Christensen

#Care #Adherence #Helping

I've concluded that the metric by which God will assess my life isn't dollars but the individual people whose lives I've touched.
-- Clayton Christensen

#People #Dollars #Metrics

Doing deals doesn't yield the deep rewards that come from building up people.
-- Clayton Christensen

#Yield #People #Rewards

You may hate gravity, but gravity doesn't care.
-- Clayton Christensen

#Hate #Care #May

We decided that humility was defined not by self-deprecating behavior or attitudes but by the esteem with which you regard others... Generally, you can be humble only if you feel really good about yourself - and you want to help those around you feel really good about themselves, too.
-- Clayton Christensen

#Attitude #Humble #Humility

Whenever we have thanked these men and women for what they have done for us, without exception they have expressed gratitude for having the chance to help - because they grew as they served.
-- Clayton Christensen

#Gratitude #Grateful #Men

...it's easier to hold to your principles 100% of the time than it is to hold to them 98% of the time.
-- Clayton Christensen

#Character #Principles #Easier

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.
-- Clayton Christensen

#Successful #Innovation #Trying

My conclusion: Management is the most noble of professions if it's practiced well. No other occupation offers as many ways to help others learn and grow, take responsibility and be recognized for achievement, and contribute to the success of a team.
-- Clayton Christensen

#Motivational #Team #Responsibility

If you defer investing your time and energy until you see that you need to, chances are it will already be too late.
-- Clayton Christensen

#Energy #Needs #Too Late

Motivation is the catalyzing ingredient for every successful innovation. The same is true for learning.
-- Clayton Christensen

#Motivation #Successful #Innovation

There are direct paths to a successful career. But there are plenty of indirect paths, too.
-- Clayton Christensen

#Successful #Careers #Path

Only the general manager can mold the resources, processes, and values that affect innovation , into a coherent capability to develop and launch superior new products and services repeatedly.
-- Clayton Christensen

#Innovation #Mold #Process

Innovation simply isn't as unpredictable as many people think. There isn't a cookbook yet, but we're getting there.
-- Clayton Christensen

#Thinking #People #Innovation

Christine and I haven't raised our children. A whole community of selfless Christians has contributed to helping them become faithful, competent adults.
-- Clayton Christensen

#Christian #Children #Community

The answer is the disruptive innovator, an outsider, who creates a product or service for the non-existing consumer in a non-existing market for almost no profit.
-- Clayton Christensen

#Innovation #Answers #Outsiders

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 Christensen

#Christian #Views #Care

And if your attitude is that only smarter people have something to teach you, your learning opportunities will be very limited. ... When we see people acting in an abusive, arrogant, or demeaning manner toward others, their behavior almost always is a symptom of their lack of self-esteem. They need to put someone else down to feel good about themselves.
-- Clayton Christensen

#Attitude #Self Esteem #Opportunity

Each of our children during their high school years went to 'early morning seminary' - scripture study classes that met in the home of a church member every school day morning from 6:30 until 7:15.
-- Clayton Christensen

#Morning #Children #Home

Children build self-esteem by doing things that are hard and learning what works.
-- Clayton Christensen

#Children #Self Esteem #Self

Focus is scary—until you realize that it only means turning your back on markets you could never have anyway. Sharp focus on jobs that customers are trying to get done holds the promise of greatly improving the odds of success in new-product development.
-- Clayton Christensen

#Jobs #Mean #Odds

Its actually really important that you succeed at what youre succeeding at, but that isnt going to be the measure of your life.
-- Clayton Christensen

#Important #Succeed

The whole enterprise of teaching managers is steeped in the ethic of data-driven analytical support. The problem is, the data is only available about the past. So the way weve taught managers to make decisions and consultants to analyze problems condemns them to taking action when its too late.
-- Clayton Christensen

#Teaching #Past #Data

There's usually some process by which a potentially great idea gets prostituted into something lacklustre, or by which the wrong idea gets put forward.
-- Clayton Christensen

#Business #Ideas #Process

I don't view it as mystic. I believe that God is our father. He created us. He is powerful because he knows everything. Therefore everything I learn that is true makes me more like my father in heaven. When science seems to contradict religion, then one, the other, or both are wrong, or incomplete. Truth is not incompatible with itself. When I benefit from science it's actually not correct for me to say it resulted from science and not from God. They work in concert.
-- Clayton Christensen

#Powerful #Father #Believe

Justification for infidelity and dishonesty in all their manifestations lies in the marginal cost economics of “just this once.
-- Clayton Christensen

#Lying #Infidelity #Cost

In our lives and in our careers, whether we are aware of it or not, we are constantly navigating a path by deciding between our deliberate strategies and the unanticipated alternatives that emerge.
-- Clayton Christensen

#Careers #Alternatives #Path

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 Christensen

#Book #Earth #Study

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

#People #Innovation #Done

This is one of the innovator’s dilemmas: Blindly following the maxim that good managers should keep close to their customers can sometimes be a fatal mistake.
-- Clayton Christensen

#Mistake #Good Man #Sometimes

As I have studied the Bible and the Book of Mormon, I have come to know through the power of the Spirit of God, that these books contain the fullness of the gospel of Jesus Christ.
-- Clayton Christensen

#Jesus #Book #Spirit

If you take away religion, you can't hire enough police.
-- Clayton Christensen

#Police #Enough

One quarter of Medicare beneficiaries have five or more chronic conditions, sees an average of 13 physicians each year, and fills 50 prescriptions per year.
-- Clayton Christensen

#Average #Years #Physicians

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.
-- Clayton Christensen

#Ideas #People #Mets

How can you make sense of the future when you only have data about the past?
-- Clayton Christensen

#Past #Data #Make Sense

Because we employ no professional preachers, it means that every sermon or lesson in church is given by a regular member - women and men, children and grandparents.
-- Clayton Christensen

#Children #Mean #Men

I have healed the sick by the power of the God. I have spoken with the gift of tongues.
-- Clayton Christensen

#Sick #Tongue #Healed

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 Christensen

#Cutting #Opportunity #Thinking

If you need a machine and don't buy it, then you will ultimately find that you have paid for it and don't have it.
-- Clayton Christensen

#Needs #Machines

Watching how customers actually use a product provides much more reliable information than can be gleaned from a verbal interview or a focus group.
-- Clayton Christensen

#Focus #Groups #Use

Management is the most noble of professions if it's practiced well,
-- Clayton Christensen

#Noble #Management #Wells

I 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 Christensen

#Blessed #Vision #Important