Want Balance? Forget About Being a CEO
When I attended business school in the 1980s, the idea of work-life balance was just beginning to be debated. Our convocation speaker, a well-known European CEO, used the occasion of our graduation to launch into a Napoleonic tirade disavowing the idea of balance in the executive suite. He insisted that successful leaders put their careers first, willingly accepting that their personal lives will suffer irreparable damage. He insisted that this was the price of success, and o
