A tall order: Linking height and success
by Latest financial news - CNNMoney.com on Friday, July 17th, 2009 | No Comments
It’s often been suggested that the CEOs of the Fortune 500 are of above-average height. We’ve never done the number-crunching ourselves, but unofficial studies suggest the assertion has merit. Arianne Cohen, the 6’3” author of The Tall Book: A Celebration of Life from on High, maintains there is a tangible correlation between height and success — and offers up a variety of theories on why tall people tend to thrive in business and elsewhere. Fortune recently sat down with Cohen to talk about the role height plays in the workplace.
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