A book cover with the title how will you measure your life ?

How Will You Measure Your Life, Clayton M. Christenson, James Allworth, Karen Dillon, 2012

What an interesting and complicated self-help book by this Harvard Business School professor and inventor of the term “disruptive innovation.” He asks his HBS class to examine how they want to measure their life and urges a “business” approach of strategic planning based on what makes you tick, deliberative and emergent planning, resource allocation, and the concept of “Theory of Capabilities” with resources, processes, and priorities. He talks about “wings and feathers” or “flying experience” and the “right stuff” model as the school of experience. His concepts of culture apply to families as well as businesses and his criticism of “marginal cost thinking” where it comes to integrity is spot on! Worthwhile read.