Erin Callan Wouldn't Have Been Happy No Matter What She Did With Her Career

Erin Callan, the former chief financial officer of Lehman Brothers, offers this contribution to the work-life balance discussion: I don't have children, so it might seem that my story lacks relevance to the work-life balance debate. Like everyone, though, I did have relationships—a spouse, friends and family—and none of them got the best version of me. They got what was left over. I didn't start out with the goal of devoting all of myself to my job. It crept in over time. Each year...