Jennifer Petriglieri – författare

Brought to you by Penguin. Every couple wants a happy relationship and a meaningful career but how do we balance both at the same time? In Couples that Work, Professor Jennifer Petriglieri shifts away from the language of sacrifice and trade-offs and focuses on how couples can successfully tackle the challenges they will face throughout their lives--together. The book explores key questions like: Can you and your partner have equally important careers or must you prioritise one over the other?How can you juggle children or family commitments without sacrificing your work?Does every decision require compromise or can you find solutions that benefit you both?Identifying common triggers and traps working couples face, and offering resolution and reflection through tools and engaging exercises, this book will help every couple design their own unique way to combine love and work at every stage of their journey.Finding fulfilment in both love and work may just be easier than you think.

Finding fulfillment in both love and work isn''t easy--but it''s possible.

The majority of couples today are two-career couples. As anyone who''s part of such a relationship knows, this presents big challenges. Yet most advice for two-career couples fails because it treats the challenges as a zero-sum game in which one partner''s gain is the other’s loss. This pits partner against partner and frames solutions in the language of sacrifice and trade-offs.

This book is different. In Couples That Work, INSEAD professor Jennifer Petriglieri shifts away from conventional, one-size-fits-all solutions for two-career couples and instead focuses on how couples can tackle and resolve the challenges they will face throughout their lives--together. She identifies three key phases of exploration and personal growth in every couple''s work-life journey, showing how couples must navigate these together in order to strengthen their bond. Each phase is crystallized with a question:

Based on a five-year research project including interviews with couples from over thirty countries--from executives to entrepreneurs and from twentysomething newlyweds to two-career grandparents--Couples That Work is filled with vivid real-life stories as well as keen analytical insights. There are also engaging exercises and activities designed to help couples develop their own unique answers to that most pressing question: How can we successfully combine love and work?