The Clayton M. Christensen Reader, Clayton M. Christensen
The Clayton M. Christensen Reader, Clayton M. Christensen
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The Clayton M. Christensen Reader

Author: Clayton M. Christensen, Harvard Business Review

Narrator: James Conlan

Unabridged: 7 hr 21 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Ascent Audio

Published: 04/11/2023


Synopsis

The best of Clayton Christensen's seminal work on disruptive innovation, all in one place.

No business can afford to ignore the theory of disruptive innovation. But the nuances of Clayton Christensen's foundational thinking on the subject are often forgotten or misinterpreted. To achieve continuing growth in your business while defending against upstarts, you need to understand clearly what disruption is and how it works, and know how it applies to your industry and your company. In this collection of Christensen's most influential articles—carefully selected by Harvard Business Review's editors—his incisive arguments, clear theories, and readable stories give you the tools you need to understand disruption and what to do about it. The collection features Christensen's newest article looking back on twenty years of disruptive innovation: what it is, and what it isn't.

Covering a broad spectrum of topics—business model innovation, mergers and acquisitions, value-chain shifts, financial incentives, product development—these articles illuminate the impact and implications of disruptive innovation as well as Christensen's broader thinking on management theory and its application in business and in life.

About Clayton M. Christensen

Clayton M. Christensen (1952-2020) was the Kim B. Clark Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School. He authored eight critically acclaimed books, including the bestsellers How Will You Measure Your Life? and The Innovator's Dilemma. Christensen cofounded Innosight, a management consultancy; Rose Park Advisors, an investment firm; and the Clayton Christensen Institute, a nonprofit think tank.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Darren

A simple review for a great collection of articles about disruptive innovation. The articles themselves are not new, as regular readers of Harvard Business Review may notice, yet the collection of the articles into a handy volume is the real deal. The reader is treated to the equivalent of having Ch......more

Goodreads review by Archit

Powerful read. ### Introduction Clayton M. Christensen is best known for his theory of disruptive innovation, in which he warns large, established companies of the danger of becoming too good at what they do best. To grow profit margins and revenue, he observes, such companies tend to develop products......more

Goodreads review by Dave

I’ve spent my entire career in an industry that has seen many disruptive changes, so the work of Clayton Christensen and his disruptive theories have intrigued me and to some extent help me position our organization for the future. This book is a compilation of Christensen’s essays. Among the topics......more

Goodreads review by Frank

Takeaways from reading articles published in the book: Innovation killers Page 75: More than 90% of the shares of publicly traded companies in the USA are held in the portfolios of mutual funds, pension funds and hedge funds. The new M&A playbook - Page 103: Study after study puts the failure rate of me......more