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• Core competence, as it is used by many managers, is a dangerously inward-looking notion. Competitiveness is far more about doing what customers value than doing what you think you're good at.

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  Thinking, Inward, Used

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• 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.

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  Innovation, Answers, Outsiders

  "The Off-White Papers" by Clayton M. Christensen, Rabbi Irwin Kula, Craig Hatkoff, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 2, 2013.

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• 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.

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  Successful, Innovation, Trying

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• The mistake managers often make is defining their industry too narrowly. Digital's market share in the minicomputer market stayed very robust even as it fell off the cliff. Disruption seems to come out of nowhere, but if you know what to look for, you can spot important developments well before the market does.

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  Mistake, Important, Share

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• The innovations are far more important because the technology itself has now way to impact the world for good until it's embedded in the business model. Innovation it's the combination of the simplifying technology and the business model.

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  Technology, Innovation, Important

  Source: bigthink.com

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• Purpose must be deliberately conceived and chosen, and then pursued.

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  Purpose, Chosen, Pursued

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• 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.

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  Self Esteem, Opportunity, Years

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

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  People, Worry, Growth

  Clayton Christensen (2016). “The Clayton M. Christensen Reader”, p.204, Harvard Business Review Press

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

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  Energy, Needs, Investing Your Time

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• 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.

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  Crush, Team, People

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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

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  Successful, Careers, Path

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

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  Noble, Management, Wells

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

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• Most companies think of disruption as a threat. But disruptive innovations have tremendous growth potential. If incumbent companies can learn how to harness the forces of disruption, they too can improve their ability to create new-growth businesses.

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  Thinking, Innovation, Growth

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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

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  Thinking, People, Innovation

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• But actually theory is very practical. Gravity is a theory, for example. It allows you to predict that if you step off a cliff you will fall; you don't have to collect data on that.

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  Fall, Data, Cliffs

  Source: www.strategy-business.com

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• 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.

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  Real, Opportunity, People

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• Disruption is, at its core, a really powerful idea, but everyone hijacks the idea to do whatever they want now.

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  Powerful, Ideas, Want

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• You may hate gravity, but gravity doesn't care.

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  Hate, Zero Gravity, Care

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

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  Yield, Building Up, People

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

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• 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.

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  People, Dollars, Metrics

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

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• If a company truly wants to resolve the innovator's dilemma, it does need to be able to create wave after wave of disruptive innovation. And those disruptive innovations will typically grow to the point where they do cause some pain for leading companies. But most disruptive innovations create substantial new growth before they cause that pain.

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  Pain, Innovation, Growth

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• 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.

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  Technology, Trying, Fool

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• 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.

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  Careers, Alternatives, Path

  "Building A Strategy For Your Career" by Clayton M. Christensen, www.cnbc.com. May 23, 2012.

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

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  Joy, Close Friends, Intimate

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• 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.

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  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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