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How will you measure your life?

Book • 2012
In 'How Will You Measure Your Life?

', Clayton M. Christensen, along with co-authors James Allworth and Karen Dillon, explores how business principles can be applied to personal life to achieve happiness and fulfillment.

The book addresses three key questions: how to ensure happiness in one's career, how to build enduring relationships with family and friends, and how to maintain integrity.

Christensen emphasizes the importance of allocating time and energy wisely, avoiding the trap of short-term gains, and focusing on long-term personal and relational investments.

He also discusses the 'jobs to be done' concept, encouraging readers to understand and fulfill the emotional needs of those in their lives.

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