CHAPTER 19

How Will You Measure Your Life?

by Clayton M. Christensen

Editor’s note: Harvard Business School professor Clayton Christensen taught a popular class on building and sustaining a successful enterprise. He considered the last session of each term to be his most important, even though it switched focus from how to build and sustain a successful enterprise to how to build and sustain a successful life. Having watched too many of his own classmates from Harvard Business School end up disappointed with both their career and their life, he wanted to help his own students avoid that fate. He would write three questions on the whiteboard:

1.How can I find happiness in my career?

2.How can I find happiness in my personal life?

3.How can I stay ...

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