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We should be thinking of new skills we'd like to learn, education yet to be pursued. Even modest continued earnings dramatically change the NPV calculation. Rarely do I encounter someone who gives me a big answer — goals that could fill 30 years. But financial issues are only part of the need for a big answer.

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Harvard Business Review

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Harvard Business Review

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Garvin was a generalist more than a specialist, perhaps because he came of age at HBS during the 1980s, when the school’s primary focus was the development of skilled general managers. Kaplan’s balanced scorecard or Clayton Christensen’s disruptive innovation. He didn’t produce one signature idea, like Robert S.

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