Christensen: Management theories only advance when researchers identify unexplained anomalies
Clayton Christensen · a16z Podcast | Competing Against Luck · Jan 2, 2019 · at 1:06
Clayton Christensen, Harvard Business School professor and creator of disruption theory, reflects on how theories evolve over time.
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“So theories, when they emerge from the researchers' minds, never did they emerge perfect. They were always just kind of half-baked, and what success was predicated upon is subsequent researchers Had to find things in the world that the theory could not explain. And if you can find an anomaly that your theory can't explain, it gives you the opportunity to improve the theory, you know.”
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