I’ve concluded that the metric by which God will assess my life isn’t dollars but the individual people whose lives I’ve touched.

Clayton Christensen, in an article for Harvard Business Review, “How Will You Measure Your Life”

Mr. Christensen is most famously known for writing “The Innovator’s Dilemma: When New Technologies Cause Great Firms to Fail”. He passed away yesterday.

How Will You Measure Your Life

Check the article for how he answered three questions, and why he thought they were the right three questions:

• how can I be sure that I’ll be happy in my career?

• how can I be sure that my relationships with my spouse and my family become an enduring source of happiness?

• how can I be sure I’ll stay out of jail?

I’ll keep thinking on the three, and perhaps answer in a later post. Will just say up front that his questions are worth pondering.