What the Executive Can Do
We have seen that feelings about personal success and professional success often clash. In a 1995 article in Working Woman magazine, Barbara Ehrenreich argues that meaningful work and a balanced life are genuine, deep-seated human needs that can be ignored or repressed for a while but will assert themselves eventually. The women in our study described how they coped when they were feeling conflict between their organization's definition of success and their own definitions of success and fulfillment.
Clarify what is most important in your life. When possible, try to make choices in ways that are in line with your own values rather than blindly following organizational norms and expectations for success. In some cases, ...
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