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“The most common misunderstanding of disruptive innovations is to overestimate their impact in the short term and underestimate it in the long term. Another common misunderstanding is to associate disruptive with good.”

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Author:Geoffrey Moore

“Sustaining innovation is the lifeblood of any enterprise. It is the time when we capitalize upon, and recover from, all the disruptive change prior. Most of the operating profits in the world come from sustaining innovation. Much of the market capitalization gains, on the other hand, come from disruptive innovations.”

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Author:Geoffrey Moore

“Sustaining innovations are the key to consistent performance, whereas disruptive innovations are the key to dramatic changes in power.”

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Author:Geoffrey Moore

“To fix the business, to bring it back to health, you must assimilate enough of the disruptive innovation to modernize the operating model without jettisoning your business model. This typically requires new leaders and definitely requires new (if temporary) rules. The CEO is the only person who can dictate the correct terms in a timely manner and maintain the enterprise's commitment to those terms for the duration of the rehabilitation effort.”

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Author:Geoffrey Moore

“Disruptive innovations create jobs, efficiency innovations destroy them.”

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Author:Clayton Christensen

“Entrepreneurs always pitch their idea as 'the X of Y,' so this is going to be 'the Microsoft of food.' And yet disruptive innovations usually don't have that character. Most of the time, if something seems like a good idea, it probably isn't.”

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Author:Eric Ries

“Rhetorical question: Did you get to where you are by accepting the status quo? I didn't.”

“No one who ever led a nation got there by following the path of another.”

Source: Disrupt You!: Master Personal Transformation, Seize Opportunity, and Thrive in the Era of Endless Innovation