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Navigating Tradeoffs in a Dual-Career Marriage

Harvard Business Review

Last month, Patrick Pichette, Google’s 52-year-old chief financial officer, announced that he was retiring to spend more time with his family. Whose career will take priority? How will domestic work (which may detract from career building) be divided up? Mid-Career Crisis. Can they renegotiate?

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Looking for a Job When You're No Longer Young

Harvard Business Review

The organizational "geography" also matters — chief marketing officer versus chief financial officer. The stereotype of an old person is someone resistant to change, slow to learn, less productive, and who will have fewer years in the organization to recoup any training costs.

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