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American - Author Born: April 6, 1952

A disruptive innovation is a technologically simple innovation in the form of a product, service, or business model that takes root in a tier of the market that is unattractive to the established leaders in an industry.

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Simple Business Innovation Service

Companies, in fact, are specifically organized to under-invest in disruptive innovations! This is one reason why we often suggest that companies set up separate teams or groups to commercialize disruptive innovations. When disruptive innovations have to fight with other innovations for resources, they tend to lose out.

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Fight Lose Reason Why

Diabetes is a great example whereby, giving the patient the tools, you can manage yourself very well.

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You Yourself Great Giving

People have an idol they want to be like and try to follow what the idols did. But when you do, you find out you're not very successful and you're not very happy. You try to copy these models, and it doesn't yield successful results.

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You People Happy Copy

The single most important factor in our long-term happiness is the relationships we have with our family and close friends.

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Family Happiness Friends Important

Management is the opportunity to help people become better people. Practiced that way, it's a magnificent profession.

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People Opportunity Way Management

There is no single right answer or path forward, but there is one right way to frame the problem.

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Path Way Problem Single

An innovation will get traction only if it helps people get something that they're already doing in their lives done better.

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People Innovation Better Doing

I believe that we can, in a deliberate way, articulate the kind of people we want to become.

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People Believe Way Want

I promise my students that if they take the time to figure out their life purpose, they'll look back on it as the most important thing they discovered while at school. If they don't figure it out, they will just sail off without a rudder and get buffeted in the very rough seas of life.

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Efficiency innovations provide return on investment in 12-18 months. Empowering innovations take 5-10 years to yield a return. We have ample capital - oceans of capital - that is being reinvested into efficiency innovation.

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Innovation Efficiency Investment Take

Disruption is a process, not an event, and innovations can only be disruptive relative to something else.

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Process Something Only Event

The reason why it is so difficult for existing firms to capitalize on disruptive innovations is that their processes and their business model that make them good at the existing business actually make them bad at competing for the disruption.

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Good Business Bad Difficult

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.

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People Opportunity Way Management

The key is not to figure out what the best people are doing and try to emulate it - rather, figure out what causes people and companies to be successful.

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Best People Doing Try

Capitalists seem uninterested in capitalism, even as eager entrepreneurs can't get financing. Businesses and investors sound like the Ancient Mariner, who complained, 'Water, water everywhere - nor any drop to drink.'

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Water Capitalism Drink Sound

The marginal cost of doing something 'just this once' always seems to be negligible, but the full cost will typically be much higher. Yet unconsciously, we will naturally employ the marginal-cost doctrine in our personal lives.

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Doing Will Always Something

There are three types of innovations that affect jobs and capital: empowering innovations, sustaining innovations and efficiency innovations.

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Three Efficiency Affect Capital

Universities think people come up with great ideas by closing the door. The academic tenure process, where you have to publish to journals which are very narrow, stands in the way of great research.

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You People Great Research

Whenever we have thanked these men and women for what they have done for us, without exception they have expressed gratitude for having the chance to help - because they grew as they served.

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Women Gratitude Men Chance

Because we employ no professional preachers, it means that every sermon or lesson in church is given by a regular member - women and men, children and grandparents.

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Women Men Children Church

Most marketers think there's a concept called a product life cycle. Once you realize that the world is organized by jobs that need to be done, you understand that product life cycles don't exist.

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Life You World Think

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

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Career Successful Paths Indirect

I got Type 1 diabetes at 30. It hit me in 1982 when I was a White House Fellow in Washington. I had viral pneumonia. I lost 35 pounds in six weeks. And I couldn't see anything. Everything was blurry. I was always thirsty.

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Me White Diabetes See

People in private equity complain that they have so much capital and so few places to invest. But you have lots of entrepreneurs trying to raise money at the low end and find that they can't get funding because of this mismatch. I think that there is an opportunity there.

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Money You People Opportunity

People don't actually want to think about their own health and don't take action until they are sick. Yet employers are very motivated to get their employees healthy, since they bear most of the burden of their health care costs.

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Health People Sick Care

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