How Will You Measure Your Life?
What does it actually mean to live well? That's the quietly urgent question sitting at the heart of this thought-provoking book from Clayton Christensen, the Harvard professor and author behind the celebrated business text 'The Innovator's Dilemma'. After surviving a heart attack, late-stage cancer, and a stroke across three consecutive years, Christensen delivered a short address to Harvard Business School's graduating class. It wasn't a lecture about profit margins or market disruption. It was something far more personal. He offered a handful of guiding principles, the kind he'd leant on himself when navigating what genuinely matters in a life. That speech struck a nerve, went on to become a widely read piece in the Harvard Business Review, and has since grown into this book. The central idea is both simple and surprisingly fresh: the same analytical frameworks we apply to business problems can help us think clearly about our own lives. Can you build a career that genuinely satisfies you? Can your closest relationships become something durable rather than gradually neglected? How do you protect your integrity when small compromises seem harmless in the moment? Christensen poses these questions with the rigour of a strategist and the warmth of someone who has had good reason to take them seriously. Comparable in tone to Randy Pausch's 'The Last Lecture', this is a book with real breadth of appeal, relevant to students, working professionals, and parents alike. Grounded, honest, and quietly surprising.
- Author: Clayton Christensen
- Publisher: Thorsons
- Genre: Economics
- ISBN: 978-0008316426
- Pages: 240 pages