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  1. Clayton M. Christensen _ How Will You Measure Your

    Work can bring you a sense of fulfillment-but it pales in comparison to the enduring happiness you can find in the intimate relationships that you cultivate with your family and close friends.
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  2. Clayton M. Christensen _ How Will You Measure Your

    The logic is, for example, "I can invest in my career during the early years when our children are small and parenting isn't as critical. When our children are a bit older and begin to be interested in things that adults are interested in, then I can lift my foot off my career accelerator. That's when I'll focus on my family." Guess what. By that time the game is already over.
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  3. Clayton M. Christensen _ How Will You Measure Your

    As I look back on my own life, I recognize that some of the greatest gifts I received from my parents stemmed not from what they did for me-but rather from what they didn't do for me.
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  4. Clayton M. Christensen _ How Will You Measure Your

    We should always remember that beyond a certain point, hygiene factors such as money, status, compensation, and job security are much more a by-product of being happy with a job rather than the cause of it. Realizing this frees us to focus on the things that really matter.
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  5. Clayton M. Christensen _ How Will You Measure Your

    As difficult as it may seem, you've got to be honest with yourself about this whole process. Change can often be difficult, and it will probably seem easier to just stick with what you are already doing. That thinking can be dangerous. You're only kicking the can down the road, and you risk waking up one day, years later, looking into the mirror, asking yourself: "What am I doing with my life?
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  6. Clayton M. Christensen _ How Will You Measure Your

    The safest road to Hell is the gradual one-the gentle slope, soft underfoot, without sudden turnings, without milestones, without signposts. -C. S. Lewis
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  7. Clayton M. Christensen _ How Will You Measure Your

    WHEN YOU WERE ten years old and someone asked you what you wanted to be when you grew up, anything seemed possible. Astronaut. Archaeologist. Fireman. Baseball player. The first female president of the United States. Your answers then were guided simply by what you thought would make you really happy. There were no limits. There are a determined few who never lose sight of aspiring to do something that's truly meaningful to them. But for many of us, as the years go by, we allow our dreams to be peeled away. We pick our jobs for the wrong reasons and then we settle for them. We begin to accept that it's not realistic to do something we truly love for a living. Too many of us who start down the path of compromise will never make it back. Considering the fact that you'll likely spend more of your waking hours at your job than in any other part of your life, it's a compromise that will always eat away at you.
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  8. Clayton M. Christensen _ How Will You Measure Your

    Our default instincts are so often just to support our children in a difficult moment. But if our children don't face difficult challenges, and sometimes fail along the way, they will not build the resilience they will need throughout their lives. People who hit their first significant career roadblock after years of nonstop achievement often fall apart.
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  9. Clayton M. Christensen _ How Will You Measure Your

    And that's the trap of marginal thinking. You can see the immediate costs of investing, but it's really hard to accurately see the costs of not investing. When you decide that the upside of investing in the new product isn't substantial enough while you still have a perfectly acceptable existing product, you aren't taking into account a future in which somebody else brings the new product to market. You're assuming everything else-specifically, the money you make on the old product-will continue forever exactly as it has up until now. A company may not see any consequences of that decision for some time. It might not get "caught" in the short term if a competitor doesn't get ahead. But the company that makes all its decisions through this marginal-costs lens will, eventually, pay the price.
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  10. Clayton M. Christensen _ How Will You Measure Your

    That's a hallmark of good theory: it dispenses its advice in "if-then" statements.
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  11. Clayton M. Christensen _ How Will You Measure Your

    On one side of the equation, there are the elements of work that, if not done right, will cause us to be dissatisfied. These are called hygiene factors. Hygiene factors are things like status, compensation, job security, work conditions, company policies, and supervisory practices.
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  12. Clayton M. Christensen _ How Will You Measure Your

    Planning Your Courses at the Schools of Experience If you think about McCall's theory, going through the right courses in the schools of experience can help people in all kinds of situations increase the likelihood of success. One of the CEOs I have most admired, Nolan Archibald, has spoken to my students on this theory. Archibald has had a stellar career, including having been the youngest-ever CEO of a Fortune 500 company-Black & Decker. After he retired, he discussed with my students how he'd managed his career. What he described was not all of the steps on his résumé, but rather why he took them. Though he didn't use this language, he built his career by registering for specific courses in the schools of experience. Archibald had a clear goal in mind when he graduated from college-he wanted to become CEO of a successful company. But instead of setting out on what most people thought would be the "right," prestigious stepping-stone jobs to get there, he asked himself: "What are all the experiences and problems that I have to learn about and master so that what comes out at the other end is somebody who is ready and capable of becoming a successful CEO?" That meant Archibald was prepared to make some unconventional moves in the early years of his career-moves his peers at business school might not have understood on the surface. Instead of taking jobs or assignments because they looked like a fast-track to the C-suite, he chose his options very deliberately for the experience they would provide. "I wouldn't ever make the decision based upon how much it paid or the prestige," he told my students "Instead, it was always: is it going to give me the experiences I need to wrestle with?" His first job after business school was not a glamorous consulting position. Instead, he worked in Northern Quebec, operating an asbestos mine. He thought that particular experience, of managing and leading people in difficult conditions, would be important to have mastered on his route to the C-suite. It was the first of many such decisions he made. The strategy worked. It wasn't long before he became CEO of Beatrice Foods. And then, at age forty-two, he achieved an even loftier goal: he was appointed CEO of Black & Decker. He stayed in that position for twenty-four years.
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