Clayton Christensen Responds to New Yorker Takedown of 'Disruptive Innovation'

Re:Clayton Christensen Responds to New Yorker Takedown of 'D... by timrosenblatt on Friday June 20, 2014 @11:58AM (#7921257)

Good stuff. I understand Christensen's complaints.

Jill Lepore (the author of the "takedown") puts off a weird vibe in her writeup, as if she's personally frustrated, as opposed to just saying "hey here are some issues"

I agree that there's a bit of a cult around "disruption". As with lots of good ideas: Agile, Lean, disruption, there's a core truth, and then there are the people who take it too far -- the zealots.

Seems like she must be surrounded by the zealots, hence the frustration.

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Re:Clayton Christensen Responds to New Yorker Takedown of 'D... by gress on Friday June 20, 2014 @12:40PM (#7921471)

Basically she is responding to a straw man - 'disruption' as represented by people who are using it to bless their own plans with an aura of power and inevitability, rather than people who are carefully analyzing a business context.

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Re:Clayton Christensen Responds to New Yorker Takedown of 'D... by jessaustin on Friday June 20, 2014 @03:01PM (#7922256)

Something about Christensen and his authoritative response seems most at home in the former group.

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Re:Clayton Christensen Responds to New Yorker Takedown of 'D... by gress on Friday June 20, 2014 @08:13PM (#7923568)

Have you read anything he has written about the actual theory?

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Re:Clayton Christensen Responds to New Yorker Takedown of 'D... by jessaustin on Saturday June 21, 2014 @01:47AM (#7924304)

Like most people I read the first book years ago. Nothing in that contradicts the impression that his current argument is a chauvinistic appeal to authority.

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