How Will You Measure Your Life?
by Clayton M. Christensen
A business professor applies the theories he taught at Harvard to personal life: how to find work you love, how relationships are like investments that must be made before the return shows, and how to stay out of jail (by never crossing the line 'just this once'). It is short, serious and written facing his own mortality.
Read it if…
you are successful by the usual measures and uncertain whether they are the right ones.
Skip it if…
you want tactical career help; this is about criteria, not steps.
Three things you will actually use
- Allocate time and energy like a strategy, not a reaction.
- Invest in family before the crisis, not during it.
- Hold the line one hundred percent; ninety-eight is harder.
Do this first
Write how you want to be measured at the end, then check the past week's calendar against it.
Our verdict
Short, grave and clear; a good book to read every few years.
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