When Money Isn't Enough: How Women Are Finding the Soul of Success [Paperback]

Connie Glaser (Author), Barbara Smalley (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: April 1, 2000

Today many career women feel that something is missing. Now, with inspiring stories of both celebrated and everyday women, plus valuable resource sections, the authors show readers how to find a balance between work and quality of life.

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From Library Journal

Women seeking inspiration will find two very different approaches in these tapes. An ensemble company narrates Every Woman Has a Story. A few of the tales are so full of clich?s or "artful" symbolism that the story is lost. Overall though, they provide for compulsive listening. Grouped by broad themes (family, marital status, friendship, life passages, etc.), they will appeal to women from differing backgrounds. Listeners will laugh and cry as women share the small and large events of their lives,. from making meatloaf to dealing with death. When Money Isn't Enough is for the successful professional who finds the restrictions of the traditional corporate world increasingly unacceptable. Through the experiences of very successful women, listeners learn of nationwide efforts to encourage valuable workers to stay employed and, at the same time, spend more time with family or helping in the community. While not reflecting the experience of most employees or companies, the authors provide comfort and practical advice to those dissatisfied and disillusioned with "business as usual." While not priority purchases, these tapes are recommended for libraries whose users are interested in self-help topics. Both are recommended for public libraries; school libraries supporting writing classes may find Underhill useful, while users of business libraries will prefer Glaser and Smalley.AKathleen A. Sullivan, Phoenix P.L.
Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

From AudioFile

Connie Glaser and Barbara Smalley tell how real women are redefining the meaning of success, bringing balance and fulfillment to the business world. in In emphatic syllables, reader Connie Glaser states the book's premise: that affluence is not delivering the kind of meaning and satisfaction it promised. Glaser's performance will inspire the confidence necessary to take control of one's work life in the new millennium. E.K.D. (c) AudioFile, Portland, Maine --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

Product Details

• Paperback: 224 pages
• Publisher: Grand Central Publishing; Reprint edition (April 1, 2000)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0446675695
• ISBN-13: 978-0446675697
• Product Dimensions: 8.9 x 6 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 9.6 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,994,753 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars How Women are Re-defining Success., March 28, 1999

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This review is from: When Money Isn't Enough: How Women Are Finding the Soul of Success (Hardcover)

Even as more and more women shatter the glass ceiling to reach corporate heights once closed to them, some of the most successful are backing down the ladder. Women are redefining success, say Connie Glaser and Barbara Smalley in their newest book, When Money Isn't Enough, and their definitions include more than a soaring career. There must be time for family, and time for themselves. Finding balance, say the authors, "enables us to enjoy our work, and keeps our lives from spinning out of control."

Brenda Barnes made front page news when she stepped down as president and chief executive of Pepsi Cola North America in 1997. But she wasn't the only woman in recent years to make headlines because of a decision to resign from a high-profile position. Ricki R. Helfer, chair of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) resigned; Anna Quindlen quit the New York Times; Patty Stonesifer left her position as head of Microsoft's Interactive Media Division; and the list goes on. "And what's the driving force behind these bailouts? A personal choice to shift priorities and a firm belief that self-fulfillment is far more critical to success than power, prestige, and personal profit."

Headline-makers aren't the only ones bailing out; thousands more are following suit for the same motives. Christy Richter worked her way into a Wall Street career selling money market accounts and earning bonuses that often exceeded her salary. "But Richter wasn't happy. 'I loved my clients, the markets, and the money,' she reports. 'But I was always having stress disorders, including TMJ and back problems. And my body was telling me to do something different.'"

"Richter decided to take a leave of absence ... during which she spent most of her time biking long distances, studying yoga, and mastering massage techniques that had helped her cope for so many years. When she returned to work three months later, it was only to resign. 'The second I stepped on the escalator at the World Trade Center, the hair on the back of my neck literally stood up,' she recalls. 'So I decided it was time to fire myself.'"

Richter opened a yoga and body works studio, and now teaches yoga and gives massages to relieve for others the same stresses she once endured.

Glaser and Smalley have interviewed dozens of women like Richter, and their stories are inspiring and hopeful. Some have had to deal with backlash from those who say they just couldn't cut it, but all have stood their ground, opting to decide for themselves what success means. Every woman's scenario for success is different. As the authors put it, "success is no longer one-size-fits-all."

The balance women seek is fulfillment in all the areas of our lives: work, personal and family. For some women, finding that balance will mean plateauing on a lower rung of the old success ladder, or opting out of the corporate world altogether. A few companies have seen the trend and are creating policies and programs that respond to employees' needs for a life beyond the office. Glaser and Smalley give Xerox credit for being one of the companies that is breaking new ground with their work-life initiatives. Establishing an environment wherein "people and teams are empowered to make the decision to be flexible, as long as business goals are met," has resulted in a jump in the number of employees on nontraditional schedules from 2 percent to 85 percent. And absenteeism has been cut in half. Clearly, work-family benefits can be a win-win situation.

If your friends are like my friends, whenever you get together, the conversation always comes around to the subject of time, and how there's just not enough of it. Not enough time to do all the things we really want to do - for ourselves, our families, our friends - because we are all too busy doing all the things we must do - for our jobs or businesses. The stories Smalley and Glaser have collected prove that we can restructure our lives to make time for what is important to us. It's time to say goodby to the Superwoman image of the 90s, say the authors, and look for a new icon "committed to reaping rich rewards beyond the bottom line."

To help the reader figure out her own game plan for a joyful and fulfilling life, Glaser and Smalley have included a comprehensive list of resources for inspiration and guidance.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars If Not Money, What?, January 4, 2001

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This review is from: When Money Isn't Enough: How Women Are Finding the Soul of Success (Paperback)

Glaser and Smalley are among the most influential of current business scholars because they think so clearly and write so well while discussing the most important issues. Perhaps you have already read their Swim with the Dolphins. If not, you are urged to do so. In this book, they focus on an especially timely subject: The importance of "soul" in the equation for "success." In recent years, I have examined the results of more than 30 "employee satisfaction" surveys and was surprised, frankly, by what were rated the highest attributes: feeling appreciated, being treated with respect, believing in the value of the work to be done, enjoying the work to be done, and trusting the organization by which one is employed. What about compensation? Depending upon the individual survey, it was ranked anywhere from ninth to thirteen in importance. For those who participated in the surveys and probably for most other workers, money is never enough and seldom most important. The authors ask all of the right questions but, to their credit, resist the temptation to advocate any ":right answers." That responsibility they entrust to each reader. Although this is another of recently published books which have a gender-specific frame-of-reference, almost everything the authors share can also be of substantial value to men...not only to understand much better their mothers, sisters, wives, daughters, business associates, etc. but, more to the point, to understand themselves much better.

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4.0 out of 5 stars Insightful!, May 20, 2005

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This review is from: When Money Isn't Enough: How Women Are Finding the Soul of Success (Hardcover)

Authors Connie Brown Glaser and Barbara Steinberg Smalley deftly combine solid reporting of facts, figures and poll results with insightful stories about women who have abandoned the corporate rat race. This concise look at a pivotal trend is not limited to women only, though they are its emphasis. The authors introduce high-powered executive women who seek more purpose, balance and fulfillment, and find it by taking less stressful positions, starting their own businesses or switching careers. Much of the story is told through the personal case histories of corporate strivers who decide to chuck it all and go home. Many of these pioneers asked, "What good is all this money when I have no time to enjoy it?" They got tired of being "corporate machines," sick of jeopardizing their health and their important relationships. While many employers now understand that satisfaction, purposefulness and appreciation can trump money, some ground still need to get broken here. We highly recommend this book to people at all levels in the work force because it will help you consider your destiny - even if you love the electricity of corporate life and would be bored to tears making gift baskets in your garage.