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Christensen on How to Measure Your Life

LDRLB

As a strict rule, I tend to avoid personal success or motivational books. Ironically, a large number of them are written by individuals with little career success other than writing about career success). With that I picked up Clayton Christensen’s How Will You Measure Your Lif e.

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Disrupt Yourself

Lead Change Blog

As president and co-founder of Rose Park Advisors’ Disruptive Innovation Fund with Clayton Christensen, Whitney Johnson utilized the theory of disruptive innovation to invest in publicly traded stocks and private early stage companies. Perhaps innovative thinking among your management team has stalled. Dare to innovate. Disrupt yourself.

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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! Although joint custody had only been awarded once (when contested) in the State of Michigan, my lawyer and I were successful in convincing the judge to award joint custody. While Christensen spoke at a 6:30 a.m.

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Mindful Leadership And Personal Values

Joseph Lalonde

The crisis was an eye opener for many leaders who were guilty of measuring success in monetary terms. What leaders need to do is to look inward to measure success as a leader and most importantly, a human instead of looking for external measures of success. This is a guest post by Ali Jafri.

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Top 16 Books for Human Resource and Talent Management Executives

Chart Your Course

Studies show that a person’s emotional intelligence (the ability to manage one’s own emotions and the emotions of others) is not only more important than their IQ, but the single most important variable in career and life success. Christensen. This is the book that launched the idea of EQ into the public domain.

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Disruptive Business Models | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

The most successful companies incorporate disruptive thinking into all of their business and management practices to gain distinctive competitive value propositions. Does your organization focus more on process than success? Are any of your executives thought leaders? Are employees who point out problems looked down upon?

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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. Thank you, Saul, for sharing your years of learning, of failures and successes, and of wisdom with us.

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