How Will You Measure Your Life?
Ratings29
Average rating3.8
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Ratings29
Average rating3.8
From the world’s leading thinker on innovation and New York Times bestselling author of The Innovator’s Dilemma, Clayton M. Christensen, comes an unconventional book of inspiration and wisdom for achieving a fulfilling life. Christensen’s The Innovator’s Dilemma, notably the only business book that Apple’s Steve Jobs said “deeply influenced” him, is widely recognized as one of the most significant business books ever published. Now, in the tradition of Randy Pausch’s The Last Lecture and Anna Quindlen’s A Short Guide to a Happy Life, Christensen’s How Will You Measure Your Life is with a book of lucid observations and penetrating insights designed to help any reader—student or teacher, mid-career professional or retiree, parent or child—forge their own paths to fulfillment.
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Quick little read compiled from discussions in a capstone MBA class at the Harvard Business School. On the last day of class, the author asks the students to apply the theories they've studied to a special case–themselves. The discussion is framed around answering 3 questions:
How can I be sure that
*I will be successful and happy in my career
*My relationships with my spouse, my children, and my extended family and close friends become an enduring source of happiness
*I live a life of integrity
The theories the students have studied are attempts to predict what will happen to a company, but now the students discuss how these theories might guide their own decision-making about themselves to arrive at a successful, fulfilling life.
I appreciated the straightforward purpose of the book and the obvious depth of commitment and integrity the authors shared through their anecdotes and thoughts. Emphasizing that finding the likeness, commitment, and metrics you're going to use to measure your life is a process, not an end, also makes this book an uplifting and motivating addition to my personal development library.
I stopped reading it after making 50% progress of the book.
You should read this book only if you are a big fan of the author's previous books and don't mind life advices given to you with nothing but anecdotal evidences in the frame of the theories from his previous books.
Clayton Christensen's insights on both corporate and personal life are spot on. Useful models, useful stories ... well written
