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  • December 2011
  • Exercise

What We Carry: Success, Failure, and Happiness in Family Systems

By: Timothy Butler
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  • | Language:English
  • | Pages:4
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Abstract

The purpose of this exercise is to enable participants to identify essential career and life themes. The core task of the exercise is to extract themes, images, metaphors and "dynamic tensions" from a list of exciting careers that have been selected from a larger career list.

Keywords

Family and Family Relationships; Success; Failure; Happiness

Citation

Butler, Timothy. "What We Carry: Success, Failure, and Happiness in Family Systems." Harvard Business School Exercise 812-026, December 2011.
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Timothy Butler

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