At one of the companies with which I work there is a legendary story about work life balance.
The firm’s most senior line woman was asked to join a newly constituted high-level diversity committee, which included the company CEO. One of the hurdles that was holding women back, everyone agreed, was the high degree of transcontinental travel required of executives in the uppermost echelons, who had to attend a variety of global and regional meetings.… Read more
Permanent link to this article: http://blog.insead.edu/2012/09/sex-and-the-working-mom/
A COUPLE of years ago, a well-intentioned friend, hearing me describe the horrors of my commute in Paris, said I should decide when I wanted to see my son each day: in the morning or at night, but not both.
The mythology of my fellow commuters is of the same ilk: either come in early (the crack of dawn) and leave early, or come in late and leave after the late (7 p.m.) Parisian rush-hour traffic.… Read more
Permanent link to this article: http://blog.insead.edu/2012/01/her-key-to-efficiency-arrive-late-leave-early/
