climbing the corporate ladder

But after just a year on the job, he realized that climbing the corporate ladder was not for him.

One, known as Tournament Theory, suggests that when pay is fair, workers will be motivated to put in more effort if there is more disparity, which means a bigger prize for climbing the corporate ladder.

There were logistical issues, like the distance and time it took to attend evening open mics, and financial ones, like finding work and then climbing the corporate ladder.

Like Candace in Ling Ma’s “Severance,” Edie in Raven Leilani’s “Luster,” Nella of Zakiya Dalila Harris’s “The Other Black Girl” and the unnamed narrator of Natasha Brown’s “Assembly,” Aretha knows, deep down, that there’s ultimately no point to climbing the corporate ladder.

He met the woman he would marry — Mellanda Colson, a dentist — and began climbing the corporate ladder, landing in Portsmouth more than a dozen years ago as an executive vice president.