Extreme Jobs: In this week's feature segment, Paul Michelman speaks with Sylvia Ann Hewlett, co-author of the highly provocative "Extreme Jobs: The Dangerous Allure of the 70-Hour Workweek," featured in the December issue of Harvard Business Review. Today's overachieving professionals labor longer, take on more responsibility, and earn more than...
A study by PricewaterhouseCoopers recently found that women in the developing world find it easier to crack the glass ceiling than their counterparts in the west. It's an interesting finding, but is the metaphor of the glass ceiling an accurate way to describe the barriers that keep the proportion of...