Quotes About Christensen

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.

a ship that Christensen had ordered built to carry polar-bear hunting parties to the Arctic

Do you want me to kill your father, Barnum?

Christensen died a few months after I arrived at Harvard, but his legacy looms large at HBS, in no small part because of his famous book, How Will You Measure Your Life?[51] Christensen analyzes a good life well lived in the same way he would assess a company, and the book is well worth reading in its entirety.

I got to work with Jeffrey Wright, which is fantastic. I started out starstruck, but he's so cool, so it was all OK.

There are photos of me with my Pony trucker hat, sideways. Truly, awesomely, horrible.

After 'Traffic,' I was a total homebody. I was still a kid.

For innovators, understanding the job is to understand what consumers care most about in that moment of trying to make progress.

When my invitation centered on how the Church would interest them, Tom wasn't interested. But when I asked for help, Tom said, "Sure." He and his wife have become wonderful members of our ward.

Indomie noodles represent the process by which poverty, through innovation, can become prosperity.

That's a hallmark of good theory: it dispenses its advice in "if-then" statements.

we biased ourselves toward resources over the processes. It is what I described in the previous chapter as something parents do, and it's an easy mistake to make.

But differentiation loses its meaning when the features and functionality have exceeded what the market demands.

Remember the Morning Star," he enjoined. But I didn't tell him about Tegg, whose face was the starry void itself...

Harvard Business School professor Clayton Christensen describes the approach of building an entire brand around a job to be done as 'purpose branding'. Purpose branding involves naming the product after the purpose it serves. In other words, as Clarissa Rayward, Director of Brisbane Family Law Centre, likes to say, it does what it says on the tin.