The Satisfaction Factor - Sally Helgesen
Chatham, NY September 2008
Three years ago, I teamed up with Julie Johnson, one of America’s most successful executive coaches, to create a project aimed at looking at differences and similarities in how men and women perceived, defined and pursued satisfaction in their work.
The project was inspired by the fact that Julie and I kept hearing the same thing from an unsettling number of very successful women who were either leaving high profile jobs or deciding to assume positions as individual contributors in their organizations—jobs that often required great skills and hard work, but did not put them on track for senior management.
What was it we kept hearing?
“It’s not worth it.”
What did this mean?
The women we talked to were in essence telling us that the tradeoffs their companies were asking them to make—in terms of time, stress, lifestyle, whatever—were simply not worth the rewards their organizations offered.
Notice: the women were not saying they were unwilling to sacrifice their time or life with the adrenaline rush we all experience when we’re over-extended (or thrillingly involved).
Three years ago, I teamed up with Julie Johnson, one of America’s most successful executive coaches, to create a project aimed at looking at differences and similarities in how men and women perceived, defined and pursued satisfaction in their work.
The project was inspired by the fact that Julie and I kept hearing the same thing from an unsettling number of very successful women who were either leaving high profile jobs or deciding to assume positions as individual contributors in their organizations—jobs that often required great skills and hard work, but did not put them on track for senior management.
What was it we kept hearing?
“It’s not worth it.”
What did this mean?
The women we talked to were in essence telling us that the tradeoffs their companies were asking them to make—in terms of time, stress, lifestyle, whatever—were simply not worth the rewards their organizations offered.
Notice: the women were not saying they were unwilling to sacrifice their time or life with the adrenaline rush we all experience when we’re over-extended (or thrillingly involved).
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