fitting.. as we're so entrenched with measuring things, that this man of such great humility (have you ever heard him talk? - this was when i first started following him) devotes so much of his time talking and writing to things that matter.
today - my first tweet - from (dang lost it) was on this article in the harvard business review by Christensen: how will you measure your life
p. 2: Doing deals doesn’t yield the deep rewards that come from building up people.
I want students to leave my classroom knowing that.
I apply the tools of econometrics a few times a year, but I apply my knowledge of the purpose of my life every day
Clarity about their purpose will trump knowledge of activity-based costing, balanced scorecards, core competence, disruptive innovation, the four Ps, and the five forces.
The lesson I learned from this is that it’s easier to hold to your principles 100% of the time than it is to hold to them 98% of the time.
p. 5 on humility:
And if your attitude is that only smarter people have something to teach you, your learning opportunities will be very limited. But if you have a humble eagerness to learn something from everybody, your learning opportunities will be unlimited.
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