How do you lead a fulfilling life? That profound question animates this book of inspiration and insight from world-class business strategist and bestselling author of The Innovator’s Dilemma, Clayton Christensen.After beating a heart attack, advanced-stage cancer and a stroke in three successive years, the world-renowned innovation expert and author of one of the best selling and most influential business books of all time – The Innovator’s Dilemma – Clayton M. Christensen delivered a short but powerful speech to the Harvard Business School graduating class. He presented a set of personal guidelines that have helped him find meaning and happiness in his life – a challenge even the brightest and most motivated of students find daunting.Akin to The Last Lecture in its revelatory perspective following life-altering events, that speech subsequently became a hugely popular article in the Harvard Business Review and is now a groundbreaking book, putting forth a series of questions and models for success that have long been applied in the world of business, but also can be used to find cogent answers to pressing life questions: How can I be sure that I’ll find satisfaction in my career? How can I be sure that my relationships with my spouse, my family and my close friends become enduring sources of happiness? How can I avoid compromising my integrity (and stay out of jail)?How Will You Measure Your Life? is a highly original, surprising book from a singular business figure. It’s a book sure to inspire and educate readers – companies and individuals, students of business, mid-career professionals, and even parents – the world over.
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James Allworth. How Will You Measure Your Life?
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Dedication
Contents
PROLOGUE
CHAPTER ONE. Just Because You Have Feathers …
SECTION I
Finding Happiness in Your Career
CHAPTER TWO. What Makes Us Tick
CHAPTER THREE. The Balance of Calculation and Serendipity
CHAPTER FOUR. Your Strategy Is Not What You Say It Is
SECTION II
Finding Happiness in Your Relationships
CHAPTER FIVE. The Ticking Clock
CHAPTER SIX. What Job Did You Hire That Milkshake For?
CHAPTER SEVEN. Sailing Your Kids on Theseus’s Ship
CHAPTER EIGHT. The Schools of Experience
CHAPTER NINE. The Invisible Hand Inside Your Family
SECTION III
Staying Out of Jail
CHAPTER TEN. Just This Once …
EPILOGUE
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
About the Authors
ALSO BY CLAYTON M. CHRISTENSEN
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Just as these theories have explained behavior in a wide range of circumstances, so, too, do they apply across a wide range of questions. With most complex problems it’s rarely as simple as identifying the one and only theory that helps solve the problem. There can be multiple theories that provide insight. For example, though Bernoulli’s thinking was a significant breakthrough, it took other work—such as understanding gravity and resistance—to fully explain flight.
Each chapter of this book highlights a theory as it might apply to a particular challenge. But just as was true in understanding flight, problems in our lives don’t always map neatly to theories on a one-to-one basis. The way I’ve paired the challenges and theories in the subsequent chapters is based on how my students and I have discussed them in class. I invite you, as you journey through the book, to go back to theories in earlier chapters, just as my students do, and explore the problems through the perspective of multiple theories, too.
