If you study the root causes of business disasters, over and over you'll find this predisposition toward endeavors … - Clayton Christensen

Same topic Authors

Quote of the day

When people are not sure about their future, when their economies are suffering, when their personal fortunes are flagging, we have often in this country turned to nativism and xenophobia and racism and anti-immigrant sensibilities and passions to express our sense of outrage at what we can't control - and to forge a kind of fitful solidarity that turns out to be rather insular - we look inward and not outward.

Clayton Christensen

If you study the root causes of business disasters, over and over you'll find this predisposition toward endeavors that offer immediate gratification.

Business, Causes, Endeavors, Over You, Roots, Study

Same Author Quotes

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.

Deep, Father, God, Jesus, Son

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.

Day, Follow, Leader, Past, Reasons, Risk

Businesses want to think in terms of categories. Consumers want us to think in terms of their needs.

Businesses, Categories, Needs, Terms, Thinking, Want

One of the factors that make great companies so great is that they have processes that allow them to solve difficult problems again and again. These processes have developed over time as teams have successfully wrestled with a certain type of challenge. Eventually, people begin to say, "This is just how we do something around here. " The problem develops when that team then has to solve a very different set of challenges. The processes that are such strengths can be crushing liabilities.

Crush, Make, People, Processes, Successfully, Team

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.

Contribute, Motivational, Practiced, Recognized, Responsibility, Team