The Innovator's Dilemma
Clayton M. Christensen · 1997
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Why it endured
Why do great companies fail? Christensen shows that doing everything right — listening to customers, investing in quality — can still lead to collapse when a disruptive technology emerges from below. The most influential business book of the last 30 years.
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“The Innovator's Dilemma changed the way I think about disruption. It's required reading for anyone building a company.”
“Christensen's book profoundly influenced my thinking about why great companies fail. Every Amazon leader has read it.”
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“Clayton Christensen helped me understand how incumbents lose to startups — it shaped how we think about Facebook's evolution.”
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“Christensen's framework is why Spotify had to move fast. Disrupt yourself before someone else does.”
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