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How Will You Measure Your Life?: Using Innovation Theory to Create a Life Strategy for Career, Relationships, and Integrity
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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, offering a powerful business philosophy for 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 a book of lucid observations and penetrating insights for personal development, designed to help any reader―student or teacher, mid-career professional or retiree, parent or child―forge their own paths to fulfillment.
Applying the same world-renowned theories he used to predict disruption in business, Christensen provides powerful decision-making strategies to help you answer life’s most important questions:
- Finding Happiness in Your Career: Go beyond the myth that incentives are the same as motivation to discover what truly makes you tick and find a job you will love.
- A Strategy for Your Life: Learn when to stick to a deliberate plan and when to embrace unexpected opportunities to create a life strategy that actually works.
- Deepening Personal Relationships: Understand why investing in your relationships with your spouse, children, and friends is the most important long-term investment you will ever make.
- Living with Integrity: See how the trap of marginal thinking can lead to compromising your values, and why it’s easier to hold to your principles 100% of the time than 98% of the time.
- Print length240 pages
- LanguageEnglish
- PublisherHarper Business
- Publication dateMay 15, 2012
- Dimensions5.5 x 0.85 x 8.25 inches
- ISBN-100062102419
- ISBN-13978-0062102416
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Editorial Reviews
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“A brilliant teacher, Christensen brings clarity to a muddled and chaotic world of education.” - Jim Collins, bestselling author of Good to Great and Great by Choice
“The book encapsulates Christensen’s best advice to keep high achievers from being disrupted in their own lives....[P]rovocative but reassuring: Peter Drucker meets Mitch Albom.” - Bloomberg Businessweek
“[M]ore genuinely a self-help book than the genre it disparages. Instead of force-feeding readers with orders on how to improve, it aims to give them the tools to set their own course” - Financial Times
“[W]ell researched and thought through material. - Forbes
“…a gripping personal story with lessons from business mixed in.” - Bloomberg BusinessWeek
“…Clayton Christensen’s new book has the business world buzzing.” - Deseret News
“Recommend the book to friends and family who have no connection to the business world. They will thank you for it.” - Harvard Business Review
“I wish this book was around when I started my carreer. I bought copies for my kids and other young adults I know. $16 is not a lot to spend to get them thinking about their future and how to live responsible, ethical and successful lives.” - Small Business Labs
‘’A Business Student’s New Required Reading’’ - Huffington Post
“[R]evealing and profound.” - Inc. Magazine
“[A] highly engaging and intensely revealing work….Spiritual without being preachy, this work is especially relevant for young people embarking on their career, but also useful for anyone who wants to live a more meaningful life in accordance with their values.” - Publishers Weekly
From the Back Cover
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 personalrelationships 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.
About the Author
CLAYTON M. CHRISTENSEN (1952–2020) was the Kim B. Clark Professor at Harvard Business School, the author of nine books, a five-time recipient of the McKinsey Award for Harvard Business Review’s best article, and the cofounder of four companies, including the innovation consulting firm Innosight. In 2011 and 2013 he was named the world’s most influential business thinker in a biennial ranking conducted by Thinkers50.
A native of Australia, JAMES ALLWORTH is a graduate of the Harvard Business School, where he was named a Baker Scholar, and the Australian National University. He previously worked at Booz & Company and Apple.
KAREN DILLON is the former editor of the Harvard Business Review and coauthor of the New York Times bestseller How Will You Measure Your Life? She is a graduate of Cornell University and Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism. In 2011 she was named by Ashoka as one of the world’s most influential and inspiring women.
Product details
- Publisher : Harper Business
- Publication date : May 15, 2012
- Language : English
- Print length : 240 pages
- ISBN-10 : 0062102419
- ISBN-13 : 978-0062102416
- Item Weight : 2.31 pounds
- Dimensions : 5.5 x 0.85 x 8.25 inches
- Best Sellers Rank: #19,224 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #18 in Business Mentoring & Coaching (Books)
- #89 in Creativity (Books)
- #110 in Emotional Mental Health
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About the authors

Clayton M. Christensen is the Kim B. Clark Professor of Business Administration at the Harvard Business School. In addition to his most recent book, Competing Against Luck, he is the author of nine books, including several New York Times bestsellers — The Innovator's Dilemma, The Innovator's Solution, Disrupting Class, and and most recently How Will You Measure Your Life?. Christensen is the co-founder of Innosight, a growth-strategy consultancy; Rose Park Advisors, an investment firm; and the Christensen Institute, a non-profit think tank. In 2011 and 2013, he was named the world’s most influential business thinker by Thinkers50.

A native of Australia, James Allworth is a Fellow at the Forum for Growth and Innovation, where he worked with Professor Clayton Christensen. He writes regularly for the Harvard Business Review, and his work has been featured in Bloomberg, Business Insider and Reuters. He worked previously at Booz & Company, and Apple Inc. He is a graduate of the Harvard Business School, where he was named a Baker Scholar, and the Australian National University, where he was awarded First Class Honors.

KAREN DILLON is a former editor of the Harvard Business Review and co-author of three books with Harvard Business School professor Clayton Christensen, including the New York Times bestseller How Will You Measure Your Life? She is also the co-author The Microstress Effect: How Little Things Pile Up and Create Big Problems – and What to Do about It, which was named one of Thinkers50 Best Management Books of 2023. Currently on the faculty of Intermountain Healthcare Leadership Institute and a frequent contributor to Harvard Business Review, Dillon was previously named by Ashoka as one of the world’s most influential and inspiring women.
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