Clayton Christensen Quotes About Management

Quotes about: Management

• 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

  Harvard Business Review, Michael D. Watkins, Clayton Christensen, Kenneth L. Kraemer (2015). “Harvard Business Review Leadership Library: The Executive Collection (12 Books)”, Harvard Business Review Press

• Often they [writers on the study of management] have a point of view based upon intuition and experience. They then offer a cadence of two-paragraph examples carefully selected to "prove" their theory, and then they write "one size fits all" books. The message is, "If you'd do what these companies did, you'd be successful too."

  Clayton Christensen

  Book, Writing, Successful

  Source: www.strategy-business.com

• One reason there are so many short-lived management fads is that their prescriptions were derived and advocated in precisely this way. So managers read about a fad and try it, find that it doesn't work, abandon the effort, and move on to the next thing. In reality, it is usually the case that the faddish prescription was indeed sound advice in certain circumstances, but actually was poor advice in other circumstances.

  Clayton Christensen

  Moving, Reality, Effort

  Source: www.strategy-business.com

• I've concluded that getting the categories right is an absolutely crucial step to building useful management theory, and unfortunately too few writers do this. You've got to engage in serious scholarship, and then figure out how to write it in a way that lots of people can understand.

  Clayton Christensen

  Writing, People, Way

  Source: www.strategy-business.com

• If you want to make better theory, you've got to use the best that's available and look through the lens of another discipline to see if you can uncover more anomalies. By looking at the phenomena of failure from the perspective of sales, marketing, finance, general management, and the equity markets, I was able to see things that Rebecca [Henderson] hadn't.

  Clayton Christensen

  Perspective, Discipline, Marketing

  Source: www.strategy-business.com

• 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

  "layton Christensen wants to transform capitalism". Interview with Jeff Howe, www.wired.com. February 12, 2013.

• Management has to provide the coordinating mechanism between what the supplier provides and what the user needs in not-good-enough situations where product architecture is consequently interdependent. Management always beats markets when there is not sufficient information.

  Clayton Christensen

  Not Good Enough, Information, Needs

  Source: www.strategy-business.com

• Management is the most noble of professions if it's practiced well.

  Clayton Christensen

  Noble, Management, Wells

  Clayton Christensen (2016). “The Clayton M. Christensen Reader”, p.196, Harvard Business Review Press

• By the time it becomes obvious that a technology will have truly disruptive impact, it is often too late to take action. This is one reason why we are such advocates of using theory to try to analyze industry change. Conclusive evidence that proves that a company needs to take action almost never exists. In fact, the data can fool management, lulling them into a false sense of security.

  Clayton Christensen

  Technology, Trying, Fool

  Source: bobmorris.biz

• In my first career I had founded my own company, with a group of MIT professors, before coming to Harvard to finish my doctorate, and so I had a deep respect for the brains, talent, and dedication of managers. That made it hard for me to believe the attributions in the business press that stupid management was to blame. So I looked elsewhere for an explanation.

  Clayton Christensen

  Stupid, Believe, Dedication

  Source: www.strategy-business.com

• In the study of management, unfortunately, many writers have been so anxious to articulate a theory in the form of, "If you do this, this will result," that they never go through this careful effort.

  Clayton Christensen

  Effort, Management, Study

  Source: www.strategy-business.com

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