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How Will You Measure Your Life?

This is an article by Clayton Christenson, a professor at Harvard Business School. Most thought-provoking and powerful…

Editor’s Note: When the members of the class of 2010 entered business school, the economy was strong and their post-graduation ambitions could be limitless. Just a few weeks later, the economy went into a tailspin. They’ve spent the past two years recalibrating their worldview and their definition of success.

The students seem highly aware of how the world has changed (as the sampling of views in this article shows). In the spring, Harvard Business School’s graduating class asked HBS professor Clay Christensen to address them-but not on how to apply his principles and thinking to their post-HBS careers. The students wanted to know how to apply them to their personal lives. He shared with them a set of guidelines that have helped him find meaning in his own life. Though Christensen’s thinking comes from his deep religious faith, we believe that these are strategies anyone can use. And so we asked him to share them with the readers of HBR…

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The Ultimate 5 P’s of Success

Do a Google search on “5 P’s of Success” and you will get hundreds of results. It seems there are many versions of the 5 P’s of Success. Some are quite good, some rather lame and some are repetitions of common themes like Passion and Perspiration. But I believe one of the best 5 P’s of Success was originally articulated by a guy called Kurt Mortensen who writes articles and books on Persuasion. I like this particular 5 P’s because it hits bulls eye for so many ordinary people all around the world, people like you and me…

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Keys to Self Development

Based on research by Center for Creative Leadership (CCL)

These are ideas, strategies and tactics that CCL has developed and refined over many years working with large numbers of clients and many kinds  of organizations

Job assignments and the kinds of jobs people have done are crucial in the role of leadership development. CCL has  identified these five key challenges that open the door to powerful leadership lessons:

Challenge 1: Unfamiliar responsibilities.

When you practice new skills and expand your knowledge base, you learn how to operate effectively when you are early in a learning curve.

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