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How Will You Measure Your Life? (Harvard Business Review Classics)
Series: Harvard Business Review Classics
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Harvard Business School's Clayton M. Christensen teaches aspiring MBAs how to apply management and innovation theories to build stronger companies. However, he also believes that these models can help people lead better lives. In How Will You Measure Your Life?, he explores questions everyone needs to consider: How can I be happy in my career? How can I ensure that my relationship with my family is an enduring source of happiness? How can I live my life with integrity?
The answer to the first question comes from Frederick Herzberg's assertion that the most powerful motivator isn't money; itβs the opportunity to learn, grow in responsibilities, contribute, and be recognized. Management isn't merely about buying, selling, and investing in companies, as many think. The principles of resource allocation can help people attain happiness at home. If not managed masterfully, the outcome of a firm's resource allocation process can be very different from the strategy management intended to follow.
This is true in life too: if you're not guided by a clear sense of purpose, you're likely to fritter away your time and energy on obtaining the most tangible, short-term signs of achievement, not what's really important to you. Just as a focus on marginal costs can lead to bad corporate decisions, it can also lead people astray. The marginal cost of doing something wrong "just this once" always seems alluringly low, and you don't see the end result to which that path leads. The key is to define what you stand for and draw the line in a safe place.
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Book Details
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ISBN: 9781633692565
Publisher: Harvard Business Review Press
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 07 February 2017
Country: United States
Imprint: Harvard Business Review Press
Illustration: Illustrations
Audience: General / adult
DIMENSIONS
Spine width: 13.0mm
Width: 107.0mm
Height: 165.0mm
Weight: 56g
Pages: 64
About the Author
Clayton M. Christensen is the Kim B. Clark Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School. In addition to authoring a number of highly influential Harvard Business Review articles, he is the author of eight critically acclaimed books, including the bestsellers The Innovator's Dilemma, The Innovator's Solution, How Will You Measure Your Life?, and Disrupting Class. Christensen is the cofounder of Innosight, a management consultancy; Rose Park Advisors, an investment firm; and the Innosight Institute, a nonprofit think tank. He has twice topped the global Thinkers50 list, in 2011 and 2013.
Author social media/website info: claytonchristensen.com
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