How Will You Measure Your Life?
Body of Work: Finding the Thread That Ties Your Story Together Pamela Slim Portfolio/The Penguin Group (2013) Why we must strive to “direct our own lives, to learn and create new things, and to do better by ourselves and our…
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What You’re Really Meant to Do: A Roadmap for Reaching Your Unique Potential Robert Steven Kaplan Harvard Business Review Press (2013) To paraphrase Walt Whitman, “We are large, we contain multitudes.” Self-improvement initiatives or, if you prefer, self-fulfillment or self-actualization…
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To Harvard professor Clayton Christensen, coauthor of How Will You Measure Your Life?, a primary task of leadership is asking questions that anticipate great challenges. Here is a brief excerpt from an interview conducted by Art Kleiner for strategy+business magazine,…
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Here is another in a series of videos produced by HBR during which major thought leaders discuss especially important business subjets. During this program, Clayton Christensen, Harvard Business School Professor, explains how to approach innovation creatively by studying the problem…
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Harvard Business Review on Advancing Your Career Various Contributors Harvard Business Review Press (2011) “Companies own the jobs but people own their careers.” Earl Nightingale This is one of the volumes in a series of anthologies of articles that first appeared in Harvard Business…
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Here is an excerpt from an article written by James Allworth for the Harvard Business Review blog. To read the complete article, check out the wealth of free resources, and sign up for a subscription to HBR email alerts, please click…
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Who is Ernest Becker and what is his relevance to today’s business world?
Ernest Becker (1924-1974) was a cultural anthropologist and interdisciplinary scientific thinker and writer. He is probably most famous for one of his nine books, Denial of Death, published in 1973 and awarded the Pulitzer Prize in 1974 (for general non-fiction)…
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