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Life's Aha! Moments Encourage Introspection and a Search for Meaning

Coaching Tip

As a high achiever, in my mid-30s, I became so engaged in my career that my wife divorced me which resulted in my second aha! Christensen: How do you keep high achievers from being disrupted in their own lives? While Christensen spoke at a 6:30 a.m. is sharpest on staying motivated in your career and, above all, on parenting. .

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Just because you can make an omelet, doesn’t mean you’re a restaurateur!

Mills Scofield

Long before it became fashionable, Saul was leveraging the power of business models in his career. ” Clayton Christensen , an advisor to BIF, taught us that customers are hiring companies to “do a job” for them. New Jersey: Wiley & Sons, 2012), pg. 2] (Kaplan, 2012), pg. 3] (Kaplan, 2012), pg.

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Whitney L. Johnson: An interview by Bob Morris

First Friday Book Synopsis

Johnson dared to dream when she began her Wall Street career as a secretary. Whitney is the president and co-founder of Clayton Christensen’s investment firm, Rose Park Advisors, a regular contributor to Harvard Business Review and [.].

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Mindfulness Helps You Become a Better Leader

Harvard Business Review

My colleague, Harvard Professor Clayton Christensen, addressed this topic in his HBR article, How Will You Measure Your Life? Clay observed that few people, if any, intend at the outset of their career to behave dishonestly and hurt others. But then, Christensen says, they started making exceptions to the rules "just this once.".

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Independent Work May Be Inevitable

Harvard Business Review

I never intended to disrupt my career over and again, eventually becoming a free agent. When my husband was on the hunt for an academic job after completing his PhD, his choices were Boston and San Antonio, both of which had the potential to cut my Wall Street career short. Of those who went independent in 2012, 57% chose to.

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Innovating Your Way Out Of The Resource Curse

The Horizons Tracker

Since then, oil and gas has regularly contributed around 20% of national GDP, with figures in 2012 revealing that the petroleum sector constituted 23% of GDP, 30% of government revenues and 52% of total exports. Norway has been in a similar situation since oil and gas deposits were discovered in the North Sea shelf in the 1960s.