Couples That Work How Two-Career Couples Can Find Fulfillment in Love and Work |
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| Author:
| Petriglieri, Jennifer |
| ISBN: | 978-1-63369-724-9 |
| Publication Date: | Oct 2019 |
| Publisher: | Harvard Business Review Press
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| Book Format: | Hardback |
| List Price: | USD $30.00 |
Book Description:
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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...
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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?