Oh whoa, Clayton Christensen died? Damn. Probably the single most important business thinker of the last century. I'd put him ahead of even Drucker and Porter. The first to take a fundamentally technology-informed approach to business thinking, rather than people or economics.
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You know how they say about weak thinking, "the part that's good is not new, the part that's new is not good?" Disruption is like the opposite of that. There were versions of it that came before, but they weren't very good. He pulled the perspective together in a powerful way.
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Alfred Chandler is probably the only one I'd put in his class. Even though Chandler wrote a lot more and Christensen was in some sense a one-big-trick pony. Even his own attempts to augment or build on disruption theory proved to be footnotes to the basic ideas at best.
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is "The Visible Hand: The Managerial Revolution in American Business" the best thing to ready by Chandler?
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I haven’t finished any of his books but that’s the one I’ve gotten farthest with. It’s all more history than theory, so slow going.
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