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Book Review: Clayton Christensen How will you measure your life?

July 13, 2012 by Bernard Leong

In a short and concise book, Clayton Christensen (famous for his theory on disruptive innovations) reflected on the lessons learnt in his career from business to academia and how the same lessons from company culture, motivation factors in hiring people and business ethics learnt can be translated to family life. Written together with two co-authors, James Allworth & Karen Dillon, the book introduced how our careers whether as an entrepreneur or corporate leader can provide us a mirror in how we view our family life. Read more

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Video: Three pitfalls startup founders must avoid

June 12, 2012 by SGE

Noam Wasserman, Harvard Business School professor and author of The Founder’s Dilemma (see book review), outlines three pitfalls startup founders must avoid.

He talks about the three Rs: relationship decisions, roles decisions, and rewards decisions. Relationship decisions touch on who you co-found a company with, roles decisions involves assigning titles and roles within a team. Finally, reward decisions are about how to split equity.