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How Will You Measure Your Life?

Written by: Clayton M. Christensen, James Allworth
Narrated by: Jeff Woodman
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In 2010, world-renowned innovation expert Clayton M. Christensen gave a powerful speech to the Harvard Business School's graduating class. Drawing upon his business research, he offered a series of guidelines for finding meaning and happiness in life. He used examples from his own experiences to explain how high achievers can all too often fall into traps that lead to unhappiness.

The speech was memorable not only because it was deeply revealing but also because it came at a time of intense personal reflection: Christensen had just overcome the same type of cancer that had taken his father's life. As Christensen struggled with the disease, the question "How do you measure your life?" became more urgent and poignant, and he began to share his insights more widely with family, friends, and students.

In this groundbreaking book, Christensen puts forth a series of questions: How can I be sure that I'll find satisfaction in my career? How can I be sure that my personal relationships become enduring sources of happiness? How can I avoid compromising my integrity - and stay out of jail? Using lessons from some of the world's greatest businesses, he provides incredible insights into these challenging questions.

How Will You Measure Your Life? is full of inspiration and wisdom, and will help students, midcareer professionals, and parents alike forge their own paths to fulfillment.

©2012 Clayton M. Christensen, James Allworth, and Karen Dillon (P)2012 HarperCollinsPublishers

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insightful

narrator was brilliant.
clay , karen and james have been incredibly insightful. they have my deep gratitude for this work.

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Models of Business growth applied to personal life

I started reading this book after reading Innovators dilemma by the same author. My expectations were high and were fully met . The resource, process, values model applied to personal life is simply amazing. Also, explanation that marginal cost/benefit fallacy wherein no deviation from your values should be done is also explained beautifully. Lastly, author’s explanation on 1 metric to measure life is a fitting end to an excellent book

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A wonderful book

A very good book to form a framework of things to anchor yourself to seek happiness and measure your life in a meaningful way.

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A new approach of looking at life

The book actually gives a new perspective of measuring our lives which is very intangible.

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Great advice on raising kids and lives purpoae

Loved the parenting tips. The last chapter is a gem which shows how one can guide their life.

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Invoking you to think about your life's purpose

loved the way of story telling. Simple yet real learnings for professional and personal life.

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One to come back to several times !!

Clayton at his best. have read both the Innovators Dilemma and Innovators Solution. This one covers many theoretical frameworks from those two and talks about how to put them to work in your personal and professional life .

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The practical approach

The clear examples help to relate the concept. it's practical guide to implementing the concepts.

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Great Book!

Excellent thoughts. Genuine.And the narration was spot on.

Some reviews had mentioned that the author has included faith more than necessary. I however did not feel so. It's something that is genuinely close to him and so he uses it as an example on a few occasions, that's it. It does not intrude the actual purpose of the book.

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Exceptional

Every word resonated with me...loved the piece about finding one's purpose using the Likeness, Commitment, Metrics framework...time to listen to this book once again!!!

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