Couples That Work - How Dual-Career Couples Can Thrive in Love and Work (Hardcover)

Finding fulfillment in both love and work isn't easy--but it's possible. The majority of couples today are dual-career couples. As anyone who's part of such a relationship knows, this presents big challenges: trying to raise kids and achieve career goals while caring for and supporting your partner can seem impossible. Yet most advice for dual-career couples fails, framing the challenges as a zero-sum game in which one partner's gain is the other's loss and solutions feel like sacrifices or unsatisfactory trade-offs. This book is different. In Couples That Work, INSEAD professor Jennifer Petriglieri rejects conventional, one-size-fits-all solutions and instead focuses on how dual-career couples can tackle and resolve the challenges they face throughout their lives--together. She identifies three key phases of exploration and personal growth in every couple's work-life journey, showing how partners must navigate these together to strengthen their bond. Each phase is crystallized with a question: How can we make this work? The first phase focuses on the logistics of combining two busy lives and often involves the demands of young children. What do we really want? In the second phase, couples learn to navigate their midlife crises in ways that allow each partner to continue to feel happy and fulfilled. Who are we now? With careers winding down and kids grown up, this last phase offers new freedoms--and uncertainties. Based on a five-year research project, the book includes interviews with couples from over thirty countries--from executives to entrepreneurs and from twentysomething newlyweds to dual-career grandparents. Filled with vivid real-life stories, keen insights, and engaging exercises, Couples That Work will help couples develop their own unique answers to that most pressing question: How can we successfully combine love and work?

General

Imprint:	Harvard Business Review Press
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	October 2019
Authors:	Jennifer Petriglieri
Dimensions:	236 x 160 x 28mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover - Sewn / Cloth over boards
Pages:	272
ISBN-13:	978-1-63369-724-9
Categories:	Books > Health, Home & Family > Self-help & practical interests > Advice on careers & achieving success Books > Business & Economics > Business & management > Management & management techniques > General Books > Health, Home & Family > Family & health > Family & other relationships > General Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Anthropology > Social & cultural anthropology > General
LSN:	1-63369-724-X
Barcode:	9781633697249

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