This book challenges myths about women's roles in the workforce and offers practical advice for breaking the glass ceiling. It highlights women's progress in management and Fortune 500 companies while addressing the barriers that still exist at the highest levels.
It is a troubling fact of organizational life that executives with a track record of success, and who are expected to continue to succeed, are sometimes fired, demoted, or plateaued. The derailment research conducted by the Center for Creative Leadership in the 1980s investigated the reasons why. This publication reports on a study that extended CCL research by comparing contemporary derailed and successful executives in the U.S. and in Europe, and by comparing these results to the earlier findings.