The Glass Cliff

Is it because organizations in crisis say to themselves, we've got to do something different? Or is it that those jobs get advertised and people with choices tend to be men who perhaps can pick or choose from a variety of jobs. I think there's definitely a case of men saying, actually, I won't take that, I'll step back. And for women, they might not feel that they'll have another option that comes on. So they might feel that they might need to take it. There's some nice research in Japan that looks at what happens in times of crisis. They don't have very many female leaders in Japan. But when an organization is in crisis, they tend to