*The prophet of disruptive innovation and also a Mormon theologian, who knew.
*I read the works of Christensen, and I often thought that his ideas must have something to do with the mass adaptation of fringe ideas from subcultures. Not that the new ideas are "better," but that the old ideas are "overserving," that they are too advanced, fussy and top-heavy, and need to be replaced by something dumber and more street-level. And when those dumb ideas somehow get some traction, they lose their blunt sincerity and immediately start getting more complicated.
*How do you fight disruption when you've got 90 percent of the market? It seems that the modern readers of Christensen have figured out that you just acquired-hire anything and everything that moves.
SALT LAKE CITY — Clayton Christensen, whose theory of disruptive innovation made him a key influence on Silicon Valley powerhouses like Netflix and Intel and twice earned him the title of the world’s most influential living management thinker, died Jan. 23 at age 67.
His brother, Carlton, told the Deseret News that Christensen died Thursday evening of complications from cancer in Boston, Massachusetts, where he had been a notable part of the Latter-day Saint community for over 40 years. He was considered an equally robust spiritual thinker....
