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What Does Your Perfect Day Look Like?

Harvard Business Review

When I graduated from business school and started my career with Touche Ross in 1982, I planned to stay just two years. Realizing that I am accountable for assuming career responsibilities commensurate with my life goals has been an epiphany for me. People say how lucky I am to have "such a good life."

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Throw Your Life a Curve

Harvard Business Review

According to Méndez-García, one of the best models for making sense of a non-linear world is the S-curve , the model we have used to understand the diffusion of disruptive innovations, and which he and I speculate can be used to understand personal disruption — the necessary pivots in our own career paths.