Updates

  1. Person pages list letters, writing, profiles and links as sortable tables with filters, and show each person's companies as links; Fund letters show each letter's description in its own column.
  2. Experts show a checked job title and a short description of each person; 30 more people have photographs.
  3. Every company, fund, university and publication the experts work for has a page listing the people there.
  4. Fund letters show each letter's thesis and filter by it; 225 person pages list the essays, columns and newsletter issues the person wrote.
  5. Person pages list every essay and newsletter issue a person wrote, and their own books as a table in List view.
  6. Recommends shows the five largest kinds of book and the rest under More; browse pictures load sooner.
  7. Podcasts and talks link the original episode, filter by Audio and video or Press, and list each publisher once.
  8. Pages are wider, Recommends has List and Grid, and a filter clicked again turns off.
  9. Book cards sit in a ruled grid with Open Library and Goodreads links and each book's one-line note.
  10. Funds is now Investors; each investor's styles are buttons that filter the table.
  11. Podcasts and talks on a person's page filter by year and publisher and show as a list or a grid of pictures.
  12. Quotes show only people's own words: 472 summaries written by list sites are gone.
  13. Country pages open from Browse again, and every link on the shelf lands on a page.
  14. Subject and person pages show their sections as tabs, and each book appears once on a person's page.
  15. Book cards show the quote, who said it and the source; grids show five cards to a row.
  16. On a phone, a menu holds the sections, search, Updates, Feedback and dark mode.
  17. Feedback takes a screenshot of the page with no browser prompt, opens a screenshot full size when you click it, and clears itself once sent.
  18. Book cards are centred, search names the topic each book sits in, and any text cut short shows whole on hover.
  19. Search groups its results by kind: people, companies, geographies, subjects, topics, books, funds, fund letters and papers.
  20. The Books table lists who recommended each book by name, and the browser tab names the section you are in.
  21. Feedback can take a screenshot of the page, or one you paste or choose, and opens in the corner beside Updates.
  22. Each rail button reopens its section where you left it, and Browse, Table and People show on every book and subject page.
  23. Filters grey out choices that hold nothing instead of hiding them, and Books › People filters by authors or recommenders.
  24. Feedback takes a subject line and up to three screenshots.
  25. Biographies are grouped by the person they are about: 41 new pages, from Abraham Lincoln to Lee Kuan Yew.
  26. Sport splits into 23 sports, and Religion into one topic per faith.
  27. Book lists show as cards: the cover, one recommendation quote and every recommender by name.
  28. Seventeen subjects that had two or three pages under different names now have one page each.
  29. Every page lists its Experts as authors and recommenders, with a link to them on the Experts tab.
  30. Economics, Financial history, Financial panics and Accounting are subjects of their own, with one page per financial crisis.
  31. Book, person and subject pages open inside the app, so the tabs stay in view.
  32. 996 more book covers, and photographs or logos for 227 more people and companies.
  33. Books › Browse shows every subject as cards, and the rail holds Fund letters, Papers, Experts, Books and Funds.
  34. Every topic over 150 books splits into narrower topics, each with a page of its own.

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Clayton Christensen

T1StrategistsInnovation and disruption

Developed the theory of disruptive innovation in The Innovator's Dilemma (1997); The Economist called him the most influential management thinker of his time. Died in 2020.

Harvard Business SchoolInnosightRose Park AdvisorsClayton Christensen Institute

claytonchristensen.com

The Innovator's Dilemma turned disruption into a primary framework that the rest of the strategy and innovation literature argues with rather than around.

11 books of their own · 13 articles

Books 11Writing 13Profiles 7

Start here

  1. The Innovator's Dilemma1997
  2. Innovation and the General Manager1999
  3. The Innovator's SolutionMichael E. Raynor, 2003
The Innovator's DilemmaThe Innovator's Dilemma
T1 The Innovator's Dilemma
Clayton Christensen · 1997
Open LibraryGoodreads

Why well-run firms lose to cheaper, worse products that enter at the market's bottom.

“Awesome book. May move soon to my Top Ten List. If anything will keep CEOs awake at night, reading this book certainly will.” — Mohnish Pabrai

Source: Mohnish's Bookshelf — Books on Sales & Marketing, entry 66

Recommended by: Jim Collins, Mohnish Pabrai, Aaron Levie and 27 others

Innovation and the General ManagerInnovation and the General Manager
T4 Innovation and the General Manager
Clayton Christensen · 1999
Open LibraryGoodreads

Irwin/McGraw-Hill case textbook

The Innovator's SolutionThe Innovator's Solution
T1 The Innovator's Solution
Clayton Christensen, Michael E. Raynor · 2003
Open LibraryGoodreads

How a company can build new businesses through low-end and new-market disruption.

Recommended by: Jeff Bezos, Keith Rabois

Seeing What's NextSeeing What's Next
T4 Seeing What's Next
Clayton Christensen, Scott D. Anthony, Erik A. Roth · 2004
Open LibraryGoodreads

Disruption theory used to forecast how industries will change.

Recommended by: Ev Williams

Disrupting ClassDisrupting Class
T4 Disrupting Class
Clayton Christensen, Michael B. Horn, Curtis W. Johnson · 2008
Open LibraryGoodreads
The Innovator's Prescription
T4 The Innovator's Prescription
Clayton Christensen, Jerome H. Grossman, Jason Hwang · 2009
Open LibraryGoodreads
The Innovator's DNAThe Innovator's DNA
T4 The Innovator's DNA
Clayton Christensen, Jeff Dyer, Hal Gregersen · 2011
Open LibraryGoodreads
How Will You Measure Your Life?How Will You Measure Your Life?
T4 How Will You Measure Your Life?
Clayton Christensen, James Allworth, Karen Dillon · 2012
Open LibraryGoodreads

Business strategy theories applied to career, family and integrity.

Recommended by: Ali Abdaal, Mohnish Pabrai, Patrick Collison and 6 others

The Power of Everyday MissionariesThe Power of Everyday Missionaries
T4 The Power of Everyday Missionaries
Clayton Christensen · 2012
Open LibraryGoodreads

Religious book, outside his management writing

Competing Against LuckCompeting Against Luck
T2 Competing Against Luck
Clayton Christensen, Taddy Hall, Karen Dillon, David S. Duncan · 2016
Open LibraryGoodreads

Customers hire products to do a job; innovate by finding the job, not the buyer type.

The Prosperity ParadoxThe Prosperity Paradox
T4 The Prosperity Paradox
Clayton Christensen, Efosa Ojomo, Karen Dillon · 2019
Open LibraryGoodreads
The Innovator's DilemmaWhy well-run firms lose to cheaper, worse products that enter at the market's bottom.1997T1Jim Collins, Mohnish Pabrai, Aaron Levie and 27 others
Innovation and the General ManagerIrwin/McGraw-Hill case textbook1999T4–
The Innovator's SolutionHow a company can build new businesses through low-end and new-market disruption.2003T1Jeff Bezos, Keith Rabois
Seeing What's NextDisruption theory used to forecast how industries will change.2004T4Ev Williams
Disrupting Class–2008–
The Innovator's Prescription–2009T4–
The Innovator's DNA–2011T4–
How Will You Measure Your Life?Business strategy theories applied to career, family and integrity.2012T4Ali Abdaal, Mohnish Pabrai, Patrick Collison and 6 others
The Power of Everyday MissionariesReligious book, outside his management writing2012–
Competing Against LuckCustomers hire products to do a job; innovate by finding the job, not the buyer type.2016T2–
The Prosperity Paradox–2019T4–

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