Clayton M. Christensen Quotes

In organizations, once you articulate how success will be measured, everybody tries to game the system so that they are measured in the best possible way.

Clayton M. Christensen

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: author
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: April 6, 1952

Topics

SuccessBestGameYouWayPossible

Words cannot express quite a lot of feelings, whereas a noise or tone or drone or sound, an accordion falling down a staircase, can somehow capture an emotion much better.

John Lydon

WordsStaircaseBetterFeelingsDown

The Globes are voted for by anyone in L.A. who's ever written for a foreign newspaper or magazine. That means, like, Romanian cookery writers.

John Hillcoat

NewspaperMagazineLikeMeansEver

I do like the ocean wave, actually. I'm born under the sign of Cancer - the sign of the crab - so I like coastal areas and sunny beaches and such - although not the wide-open and deep seas.

Anjelica Huston

OceanDeepWaveBornSunnyCrab

Military leaders, many of whom were students of counterinsurgency, recognized the dangers of an incremental escalation and the historical lesson that 'trailing' an insurgency typically condemned counterinsurgents to failure.

Stanley A. McChrystal

FailureLessonMilitaryHistorical

I think any thinking person should be worried about climate change.

Tommy Lee Jones

ChangeThinkThinkingPersonI Think

And it was under Wilson that the first great propaganda slogan was coined and emblazoned everywhere, to make Americans start thinking favorably of democracies and forget that we had a republic.

Robert W. Welch, Jr.

GreatStartThinkingForgetFirst

Political reporters and political professionals rushed to judgment against Romney because we crave clear, unambiguous story lines.

Ron Fournier

StoryPoliticalJudgmentAgainst

I'm the biggest fighter in the history of the sport. If you don't believe it, check the cash register.

Mike Tyson

HistoryBelieveYouFighterCheck

Is there any other job that beats being an astronaut? Who didn't want to be an astronaut? That is my question.

Luca Parmitano

JobWantQuestionBeingWhoOther

The networks have a particular agenda, a particular model and structure. It doesn't have anything to do with content. This is not a dis on them - they are a business model, run by business people.

Joss Whedon

BusinessPeopleRunStructureModel

If I go on dates, my mom is always with me. She's always there making sure I'm all right. Like if I go to see a movie with a boy, she'll go to dinner next door.

Ariel Winter

MeMomDoorDinnerGoBoy

I never know if it's the right choice I'm making. It's always weird going from one place to another.

Selena Gomez

WeirdChoicePlaceKnowNeverRight

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