Episode 180 — It’s Been a Week

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Ben Thompson / James Allworth

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4.6 • 832 Ratings

🗓️ 31 January 2020

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Ben and James eulogize Professor Clayton M. Christensen Links Clayton M. Christensen: How Will You Measure Your Life? — Harvard Business Review Ben Thompson: What Clayton Christensen Got Wrong — Stratechery Ben Thompson: Clayton Christensen Passes Away, Professor Christensen and I, Kobe Bryant and Measuring Your Life — Stratechery Daily Update James Allworth, Karen Dillon, and Clayton M. Christensen — How Will You Measure Your Life? Hosts Ben Thompson, @benthompson, Stratechery James Allworth, @jamesallworth, Harvard Business Review Podcast Information Feed iTunes SoundCloud Twitter Feedback

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0:00.0	Hi, James. Ben, how are you? I am okay. How are you? I, it's been a week. It's been a week.
0:09.0	A very dear friend and mentor of mine passed away this week. And I, yeah, it's hard for something
0:18.6	like this to happen and for it not to impact you quite a bit or impact me. And it has. So, yeah, it's hard for something like this to happen and for it not to impact you quite a bit or impact me. And it has. So yeah, it's been a week.
0:26.4	Well, that friend and mentor is obviously Professor Clayton Christensen who, you know, I think what we'll do is I'm going to sort of start and set this up, but I want most of
0:38.8	this podcast, I think, actually to be from your perspective, in your view, because you sort of knew
0:44.4	him in a way that few of us listening did, you know, by virtue of, you know, you obviously,
0:49.1	you not just took his class, but also co-wrote a book with him. How will you measure your life?
0:53.5	Which is a particularly sort of meaningful book in the context of someone's death.
0:59.2	Whereas, you know, for me, it was, it was much more of a different relationship in that there
1:03.1	wasn't one.
1:03.8	Yet, it felt like there was certainly someone I looked up to, someone that really helped make business school make sense to
1:12.6	me for me from sort of a personal perspective and certainly was a massive influence on
1:18.5	strategically and and you know this this podcast specifically I think we've told the story that
1:24.3	the entire reason that this podcast got started, what got it off the ground,
1:30.4	was I wrote an article at the beginning of Shrekory entitled what Clay and Christensen got
1:35.0	wrong. And you did not like that article or you did not like the title in particular. And so I said,
1:43.0	well, let's get coffee and talk about it.
1:44.5	And then we were talking about it.
1:46.0	I said, well, instead of having this discussion over coffee, we should have this discussion as a podcast.
1:51.6	And I would like to think that it is a discussion that is still ongoing.
1:56.4	I think it was just last week we talked about, or not last week, but last episode, we talked about
2:01.4	disruption and whether it apply or did not apply in a particular case. And I don't anticipate
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