Seven lessons about relationships that could save your career.
“What happened with me would not have happened without her.” – Warren Buffett, on his late wife Susie
A promising field of management research explores the role romantic partners play in shaping work outcomes. At INSEAD, for example, Professor Jennifer Petriglieri’s book,
dual-career couples to thrive. And in recent
research, Professor Winnie Jiang finds that romantic partners who do not sync in terms of the meaning they assign to their work end up struggling more during job transitions and are less satisfied at work.
In my own C-suite seminar at INSEAD, it has always struck me how keen participants are to switch – unprompted – from discussing business to talking about their marital woes. Time and again, I have marvelled at how repetitive certain life patterns are. And how intertwined personal and professional lives are.