In this second edition of Breaking the Mold, MIT Sloan Professor Lotte Bailyn maintains the long-standing separation between work and family life is an outdated concept. She contends that unless American business radically rethinks some of its basic assumptions about work, time, and career paths, both employee and employer will experience setbacks in today's intensely competitive business environment. Bailyn shows how the structure and culture of corporate life could be changed to integrate all of an employee's obligations and interests.

And she illustrates the benefits that such change can have for the organization itself..