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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 frus
by timrosenblatt 12y ago
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.
- gress 12y agoBasically 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.
- jessaustin 12y agoSomething about Christensen and his authoritative response seems most at home in the former group.
- gress 12y agoHave you read anything he has written about the actual theory?
- jessaustin 12y agoLike 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.