The “do more with less” assumes that there is a significant quantity of “wasted” time yet to be wrung from the average worker. It assumes that you can agglomerate all those unused ergs and semi-ergs into chunks of usable time and effort. Extraction requires aggressive measures to reap that last little bit of productivity. In fact, it’s not unlike a violent mining process known as fracking.
The career swooning of women, like the canary, may not really be about women but be about more pervasive threats. For every woman who decides to throw in the towel, there are likely more than a few guys lined up behind her, hoping her exit might pave the way for change they will benefit from.
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The better you do something, the better the chances of success. Correct? We’ve been told that since kindergarten; do better, cross those “t”s, dot those “i”s. Few would argue that excellence brings rewards. So research that shows that girls tend to be better students than boys,that they grow up into women who are better at following the rules in business should translate into better career advancement for women compared to men.
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