How Will You Measure Your Life?

ISBN-13: 9780062102416

Media Type: Hardcover

Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers

Publication Date: 05-15-2012

Pages: 240

Product Dimensions: 5.88(w) x 8.36(h) x 0.88(d)

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.

Table of Contents

Prologue 1

1 Just Because You Have Feathers... 9

Section I Finding Happiness in Your Career 19

2 What Makes Us Tick 25

3 The Balance of Calculation and Serendipity 42

4 Your Strategy Is Not What You Say It Is 62

Section II Finding Happiness in Your Relationships 77

5 The Ticking Clock 84

6 What Job Did You Hire That Milkshake For? 99

7 Sailing Your Kids on Theseus's Ship 120

8 The Schools of Experience 140

9 The Invisible Hand Inside Your Family 158

Section III Staying Out of Jail 175

10 Just This Once... 178

Epilogue 193

Acknowledgments 207