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Purpose must be deliberately conceived and chosen, and then pursued.
Clayton Christensen
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Clayton Christensen
Age: 67 †
Born: 1952
Born: April 6
Died: 2020
Died: January 23
Economist
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Salt Lake City
Utah
Clayton Magleby Christensen
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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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Its actually really important that you succeed at what youre succeeding at, but that isnt going to be the measure of your life.
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The best strategy is a balance between having a deliberate one, and a flexible, or emergent strategy.
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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.
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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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I have continued systematically to study the Book of Mormon and Bible to understand even more deeply what God expects of me and my family while on this earth.
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Justification for infidelity and dishonesty in all their manifestations lies in the marginal cost economics of “just this once.
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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.
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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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There are direct paths to a successful career. But there are plenty of indirect paths, too.
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Because if the decisions you make about where you invest your blood, sweat, and tears are not consistent with the person you aspire to be, you’ll never become that person.
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