Clayton Christensen: Just a guy from Rose Park

Published: Saturday, Nov. 27 2010 11:24 p.m. MST

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Clayton M. Christensen is fond of asking unusual questions. So here is one for him: How can an internationally-renowned business guru from Harvard Business School and a faithful member of the LDS Church who doesn't like country music be a fan of Toby Keith's song "I Love This Bar," a honky-tonk ode to "chain smokers, boozers ... blue collar boys and rednecks"?

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runwasatch

Ogden, UT

i do not understand the LDS's need to celebrate celebrity within its membership. Pride...the central theme of celebrity...is a sin. Strange that so many of our memebers strain and clamour to elevate mormon celebrity...

1:28 p.m. Nov. 28, 2010
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MapleDon

Springville, UT

runwasatch, is right. Jack, you're wrong.

I'm also cautious (and advise others to be equally cautious) when we put fellow saints on pedestals and celebrate the celebrity. Pride precedes the fall.

It's okay to cheer success. More..

3:37 p.m. Nov. 28, 2010
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working class

Salt Lake City, UT

Christensen is a solid citizen and in many respects the ideal Mormon scholar - plenty of achievement and unstinting devotion to the market system. My background is similar to Christensen's - westside boyhood, West High, etc. But my views of More..

1:11 a.m. Nov. 28, 2010
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My name is Michael De Groote and I am a staff writer for the Deseret News. I like to write about trends and issues in religion and society the big stuff that affects the small stuff in our lives. I also like quirky, funny more ..

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