Clayton Christensen Quotes About Opportunity

Quotes about: Opportunity

• 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

• The transformation at the corporate level was achieved by selling off business units in old markets and by creating new business units to pursue the new opportunities. But the individual business units themselves within those transformed corporations were almost inert to change.

  Clayton Christensen

  Opportunity, Creating, Levels

  Source: www.strategy-business.com

• People still cling to this belief that innovation is just random and unpredictable. But if you look closely, there are some real patterns. The companies that recognize and take advantage of those patterns have the real opportunity to create competitive advantage.

  Clayton Christensen

  Real, Opportunity, People

  Source: bobmorris.biz

• 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.

• 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

  Clayton M. Christensen, Harvard Business Review (2016). “The Clayton M. Christensen Reader”, p.203, Harvard Business Review Press

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