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Many people want to scale back their working hours as they near the end of their careers, but not necessarily to give up work altogether.

Flexibility has become a modern day value that everyone wants. But flexibility comes with a cost.

I think people are always able to achieve more than they think they can. While that's cliche, I don't know if managers think about that enough. You have to set your sights extremely high.

I've tried to be flexible in my career by doing a little bit of everything and that's worked for me.

I recognized that if you're going to have women in the workforce that sometimes you need to be more flexible.

All companies can benefit from fostering a more flexible environment (creating a place where the most talented, industrious, and entrepreneurial people want to work) and relinquishing hierarchical control to favor a results-oriented meritocracy.

Out in the field, I feel like I'm flexible enough to where I'm comfortable at different positions, wherever they want to put me.

Managers tend to treat organizations as if they are infinitely plastic. They hire and fire, merge, downsize, terminate programs, add capacities. But there are limits to the shifts that organizations can absorb.

My work schedule has changed over the years. The one constant is, when at work on a novel, I try to work seven days a week, so as not to lose touch with that world. Within that, I'm flexible on hours and output.