If the decisions you make about where you invest your blood, sweat, and tears are not consistent with the person you aspire to be, you’ll never become that person.
-- Clayton M. Christensen
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Who we are should be a reflection of the values we hold dear. Our actions should match our words, and they should reflect out beliefs.
We have role models in part to help us determine what kind of people we want to become. We study the role models to see what values they have, and we match our conduct as best as we can to theirs. After a while, their values become our values, their behaviors our behaviors.
When we have our actions in synch with our values, we succeed in becoming like our role models. Then we proceed to become our own selves and become role models for others. If our actions don't match our values, then we fool ourselves in who we are and who we want to become.
Some Information about Clayton M. Christensen
Clayton M. Christensen was born in Salt Lake City, Utah, US on 1952-April-6. He died in Boston, Massachussetts on 2020-January-23.
Clayton M. Christensen was a scholar, writer, and business consultant. He is best known for coining the term disruptive technology.
Christensen went to college at Brigham Young University (BYU). He interrupted his studies at BYU to fulfill his missionary service for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS) (a.k.a. the Mormon Church) from 1971 to 1973. His missionary service took him to South Korea, which at the time was one of the poorest nations in Asia. It was during his service in Korea that he gained a deep understanding of personal happiness and how it could be separated from wealth.
After resuming his academic studies at BYU, Christensen went to Oxford University as a Rhodes Scholar. He graduated from Oxford University in 1977 with a Master of Philosophy in applied econometrics. Shortly afterward in 1979, he received his MBA from Harvard Business School. He served as a White House Fellow in 1982, and the next year he was an assistant to the Secreatry of Transportation.
In 1992 Christensen returned to Harvard Business School; this time to pursue his DBA. It was during this time when Christensen began his research in the area for which he would be best known: disruptive innovation.
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