Summary of Clayton Christensen & James Allworth, and Karen Dillon's How Will You Measure Your Life?

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Get the Summary of Clayton Christensen & James Allworth, and Karen Dillon's How Will You Measure Your Life? in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Original book introduction: 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.

• Language: English
• Publisher: IRB Media
• Release date: Feb 5, 2021
• ISBN: 9781638153443

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How Will You Measure Your Life? (2012) by Clayton Christensen, James Allworth, and Karen Dillon explores how a range of business theories can help build not only successful companies, but also happy lives.

Those who obtain their MBAs at Harvard Business School or other prestigious universities and go on to high-profile careers are expected to lead charmed lives of prosperity and happiness. Yet many of these people, even if they are successful at work, are miserable in their personal lives, cycling through multiple marriages and divorces, becoming estranged from their children, even landing in prison, as was the case with former Enron CEO Jeffrey Skilling.

Where these executives go wrong is in failing to apply to their personal lives the academic principles they use to create successful businesses. These management theories are theories of causality—ways of forecasting what will happen as a result of specific actions a company takes. As it turns out, these theories are also useful in predicting human behavior.

A company, for example, must have a clearly defined purpose to which all employees adhere, otherwise it will fail. This principle is equally if