Book Recommendation: How Will You Measure Your Life?

I had the good fortune recently to meet Karen Dillon, who coauthored Clayton Christensen’s wonderful New York Times bestselling book, How Will You Measure Your Life? I had read it years ago and meeting Karen inspired me to read it again.

The books is based on a 2010 lecture he gave at Harvard Business School (where he was a Professor) to its graduating class. He drew on his business research and offered a series of guidelines for finding meaning and happiness in life. During the phase of his life that he wrote the speech, he discovered that the same type of cancer that had claimed his father’s life had overtaken him.

The answer to the question, How Will You Measure Your Life became personally very important.  His insights, the questions posed and the messages are deep, motivating and life changing.  The message is not what to think, but how to think about your life and your purpose. It is a very powerful book and well worth taking the time to read.

Christenson died of cancer in 2020 at the age of 67.