The Clayton Christensen article, "How Will You Measure Your Life?" and the case study on Chris and Alison Weston provide a powerful conclusion to this course on Managing People and Organizations. After all the principles that we have covered, from Leadership and Erik Peterson to Change Management with Peter Browning, being inspirational leaders and effective managers comes down to our personal priorities and individual actions. Christensen makes a powerfully moving argument to not "reserve your best business thinking for your career," but to instead, to "create a strategy for your life." I personally have found his final recommendation to "Think about the metric by which your life will be judged, and make a resolution to live every day so that in the end, your life will be judged a success" to be incredibly insightful. By contrast, the case study on Chris and Alison Weston provides a cautionary tale of what can happen when we don't follow Christensen's advice. The Westons never expected the
