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The Innovator's Dilemma: When New Technologies Cause Great Firms to Fail (Management of Innovation and Change)
Clayton M. Christensen · 2003 · 288 pages
A Wall Street Journal and Businessweek bestseller. Named by Fast Company as one of the most influential leadership books in its Leadership Hall of Fame. An innovation classic. From Steve Jobs to Jeff Bezos, Clay Christensen's work continues to underpin today's most innovative leaders and organizations.
The bestselling classic on disruptive innovation, by renowned author Clayton M. Christensen.
His work is cited by the world's best-known thought leaders, from Steve Jobs to Malcolm Gladwell. In this classic bestseller--one of the most influential business books of all time--innovation expert Clayton Christensen shows how even the most outstanding companies can do everything right--yet still lose market leadership.
Christensen explains why most companies miss out on new waves of innovation. No matter the industry, he says, a successful company with established products will get pushed aside unless managers know how and when to abandon traditional business practices.
Offering both successes and failures from leading companies as a guide, The Innovator's Dilemma gives you a set of rules for capitalizing on the phenomenon of disruptive innovation.
Sharp, cogent, and provocative--and consistently noted as one of the most valuable business ideas of all time--The Innovator's Dilemma is the book no manager, leader, or entrepreneur should be without.
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Mark Cuban
“This helped me make sense of why things worked and didn’t work in the technology industry.”↗
Steve Jobs
“Jobs was deeply influenced by the book The Innovator's Dilemma.”↗
Ben Horowitz
“Andy Grove's Only the Paranoid Survive is a great book on strategy as is The Innovator's Dilemma by Clayton Christensen.”↗
Aaron Levie
“Read these three books: Crossing the Chasm, the Innovators Dilemma, and Behind the Cloud. These three combined, if you binge and read them all, you will come out ahead.”↗
Bill Gurley
“Other books that all entrepreneurs should read: 1) @MichaelEPorter, Competitive Strategy, 2) @geoffreyamoore Crossing the Chasm, 3) @claychristensen Innovator's Dilemma, and 4) @Jerry_Kaplan Startup”↗
Guy Kawasaki
“This was a formative read for me: it taught me why it’s so hard to come up with a second hit and why startups often have the advantage when creating curve-jumping innovation.”↗
Caterina Fake
“A must-read for entrepreneurs.”↗
Steve Blank
“Christensen’s The Innovator’s Dilemma is the foundational read for managing disruptive innovation. Since then, Christensen, who was channeling Schumpeter, [the inventor of the term ‘creative destruction’], has bounced between arguing that innovation comes from startups and that innovation comes from corporations. The answer, of course, is that he is right in both cases.”↗
Mark Suster
“Two of the most influential books of my life “Seven Habits of Highly Effective People” and “Innovator’s Dilemma” written by Mormons. One of my favorite startup founders is Mormon, too. His name is Derek Anderson 👇🏼👇🏼”↗
Adrienne Porter Felt
“The Innovator's Dilemma by Clayton M Christensen. A classic book on innovation, focusing on how large companies can be "disrupted" by new technologies.”↗
Ajit Pai
“RIP, Clayton Christensen: @HarvardHBS professor introduced the concept of “disruptive innovation” and his 1997 book “The Innovator’s Dilemma” remains a powerful read on technology, business incentives, and organization (major application to telecom field).”↗
Andy Grove
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