Who's Got Your Back: The Breakthrough Program to Build Deep, Trusting Relationships That Create Success--and Won't Let You Fail
Clayton Christensen is the world’s leading thinker on innovation and the New York Times bestselling author ofThe Innovator’s Dilemma, the only business book that Apple’s Steve Jobs said “deeply influenced” him.  Most recently, he is the author ofHow Will You Measure Your Life?, an unconventional book of inspiration and wisdom for achieving a fulfilling life.  Read his exclusive guest review ofDare, Dream, Do:Every  semester at Harvard Business School, on the last day of class I deliver  a lecture, not on building and sustaining a successful enterprise, but  rather on building and sustaining a happy life.I often start  with something like, “In just a few months you’ll graduate and embark on  what to many, including your selves, will be prestigious, lucrative,  high-profile careers. But if you want to also have happy lives, you need  to know the purpose of your life.  Take the time, even if it’s at  midnight each night, to figure out what you are meant to do.  Or in the  words of my colleague Howard Gardner, learn to cultivate existential  intelligence, or the ability to make meaning of life.”One of my  personal missions is to inspire others to discover their purpose in  life. As such, what started as a lecture has now become a book I  co-authored with James Allworth and Karen Dillon. While our book focuses  on individuals across the board, Whitney Johnson’s bookDare, Dream, Dofurther drills down on the topic by thinking through the question of  how do women build a happy life. Through powerful storytelling, she  dares women to rethink their current fundamentals, to measure their life  by the only yardstick that matters – what she specifically is meant to  do, including the importance of teaching her children to dream.  The  book then moves to provide women with specific tools for identifying  what it is they were meant to do, recognizing that creating a meaningful  life emerges from answering the deepest questions about our life’s  purpose.It concludes with the injunction to simply begin.  It  may be frightening at first. There will be much that you can’t predict.   But it is only in the doing, that you can ultimately build and sustain a  happy life. For anyone who has pondered the question, “what should I do  with my life,” for anyone who is seeking fresh inspiration, advice and  tactics, I recommendDare, Dream, Do.  Whether your purpose is to circle the globe or draw your family circle,Dare, Dream, Dohelps make that discovery possible.