October 2020
Intermediate to advanced
256 pages
5h 51m
English
book
HBR's 10 Must Reads 2021
by Harvard Business Review, Marcus Buckingham, Amy C. Edmondson, Peter Cappelli, Laura Morgan Roberts
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How Dual-Career Couples Make It Work
by Jennifer Petriglieri
CAMILLE AND PIERRE MET in their early forties after each one’s marriage had ended. Both were deeply committed to their careers and to their new relationship. Camille, an accountant, had felt pressured by her ex-husband to slow her progress toward partnership at her firm. Pierre, a production manager at an automotive company, was embroiled in a bitter divorce from his wife, who had given up her career to accommodate the geographic moves that his required. (As with the other couples I’ve profiled in this article, these aren’t their real names.) Bruised by their past experiences, they agreed to place their careers on an equal footing. Initially things went smoothly, but two years in, ...