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41 " The techniques that worked so extraordinarily well when applied to sustaining technologies, however, clearly failed badly when applied to markets or applications that did not yet exist. "
― Clayton M. Christensen , The Innovator's Dilemma: The Revolutionary Book that Will Change the Way You Do Business
42 " Many blessings and friendships have come into our lives from our trying to share the gospel. But this blessing has been one of the best: Having the missionaries regularly help us as a family teach the gospel to new and old friends through the power of the Holy Ghost has profoundly affected the faith of our five children and brought the Spirit of God into our home. "
― Clayton M. Christensen , The Power of Everyday Missionaries
43 " the only way to do great work is to love what you do. "
― Clayton M. Christensen , How Will You Measure Your Life?
44 " successful companies don’t succeed because they have the right strategy at the beginning; but rather, because they have money left over after the original strategy fails, so that they can pivot and try another approach. Most of those that fail, in contrast, spend all their money on their original strategy—which is usually wrong. The "
45 " None of that data, however, actually tells you why customers make the choices that they do. "
― Clayton M. Christensen , Competing Against Luck
46 " When I have my interview with 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 that matter in measuring my life. "
47 " Culture is a way of working together toward common goals that have been followed so frequently and so successfully that people don’t even think about trying to do things another way. If a culture has formed, people will autonomously do what they need to do to be successful. "
48 " Three classes of factors affect what an organization can and cannot do: its resources, its processes, and its values. "
49 " Data is always an abstraction of reality based on underlying assumptions as to how to categorize the unstructured phenomena of the real world. "
50 " This is one of the innovator’s dilemmas: Blindly following the maxim that good managers should keep close to their customers can sometimes be a fatal mistake. "
51 " It turns out that for most people who have chronic diseases with deferred consequences, "improve my financial health" is a much more pervasively experienced job than "maintain my physical health. "
― Clayton M. Christensen , Innovator's Prescription
52 " As you go through your career, you will begin to find the areas of work you love and in which you will shine; you will, hopefully, find a field where you can maximize the motivators and satisfy the hygiene factors. But it’s rarely a case of sitting in an ivory tower and thinking through the problem until the answer pops into your head. Strategy almost always emerges from a combination of deliberate and unanticipated opportunities. What’s important is to get out there and try stuff until you learn where your talents, interests, and priorities begin to pay off. When you find out what really works for you, then it’s time to flip from an emergent strategy to a deliberate one. "
53 " Disruptive innovations, in contrast, don’t attempt to bring better products to established customers in existing markets. Rather, they disrupt and redefine that trajectory by introducing products and services that are not as good as currently available products. But disruptive technologies offer other benefits—typically, they are simpler, more convenient, and less expensive products that appeal to new or less-demanding customers.3 "
― Clayton M. Christensen , The Innovator's Solution: Creating and Sustaining Successful Growth
54 " Necessity remains the mother of invention. "
55 " My purpose in writing this book is simply to offer my witness that being a member missionary can be a source of deep happiness. It need not be hard. You will pull wonderful friends into your life because they will be able to feel your love for them when you invite them to learn more about their Heavenly Father. And every time you take someone figuratively by the hand and introduce him or her to Jesus Christ, you will feel how deeply our Savior loves you and loves the person whose hand is in yours. "
56 " cost reductions meant survival, but not profitability, "
57 " Competitiveness is far more about doing what customers value than doing what you think you’re good at. And "
58 " this is a serious development for our medical training establishment is that a host of technological enablers will fuel the disruption of specialists by primary care physicians in the future. "
59 " Watching how customers actually use a product provides much more reliable information than can be gleaned from a verbal interview or a focus group. "
60 " if our ward and stake leaders were to focus on leading their members to share the gospel, many of the other problems that fester in our hearts and homes, and in our wards and stakes, would resolve themselves through the blessings that come from accepting the call that God has given each of us to be missionaries. "