Gender

Are Katie Couric and Diane Sawyer Perched on a Glass Cliff?

Why are women leaders appointed during perilous times?

Posted January 11, 2010

Given the current state of television news, that two of the three networks have women at the helm would have been much bigger news ten years ago than it is today. That Couric and Sawyer are in these still important positions reminds me of a curious phenomenon in organizational management: the glass cliff.

Read more about the glass cliff:

http://www.cambridgeblog.org/2010/01/glass-cliff/

About the Author

Kristin J. Anderson, Ph.D., is a professor at the University of Houston-Downtown and the author of Enraged, Rattled and Wronged: Entitlement's Response to Social Progress (Oxford 2021).

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