"It's actually really important that you succeed at what you're succeeding at, but that isn't going to be the measure of your life." CNBC called it one of the most anticipated business books of 2012. How Will You Measure Your Life? the latest book by management guru and Harvard professor, Clay Christensen appears to be living up to its billing. For those who do not have the time to read the book or just want to get a jump start, I prepared a Clay Christensen Primer today. Hope you find it useful...
accessible to consumers with a lot of money or a lot of skill. Characteristics of disruptive businesses, at least in their initial stages, can include: lower gross margins, smaller target markets, and simpler products and services that may not appear as attractive as existing solutions when compared against traditional performance metrics. Source: ClayChristensen.com "No one graduates from the Harvard Business School planning to screw the world and end up in jail but a scary number of them actully do." ~ Clay Christensen
Much in the same vein as Steve Jobs’ epic address at Stanford’s 2005 commencement and Randy Pausch’s “ The Last Lecture ”, this book (which as it happens, is based on a 2010 speech Christensen gave to Harvard Business School graduates after he had survived a heart attack, advance-stage cancer, and a stroke) will inspire and cause readers to pause to answer one of life’s most pressing questions: What exactly is a well-lived life? Source: CNBC "The reason successful companies fail is they invest in things that provide the most immediate and tangible evidence of achievement. And the reason they have such a short time horizon is that they are run by people like you and I."
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8/2/2012 04:15:14 am
On the surface, his new book (How Will You Measure Your Life?) is a radical departure from his other books such as, The Innovator's Dilemma, which put the term "disruptive innovation" on the map. If you listen carefully to the interviews featured in my slog post, you will hear that he is actually employing a form of disruptive innovation to solve what some would consider to be the mother of all human challenges, namely, why can't we all just do the right thing?
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