0 a situation in which you are only given a high position in an organization when there are difficult conditions which make you likely to fail: --
This lack of support for women and minorities is central to the glass cliff phenomenon.
Women were often left teetering on a glass cliff after being handed impossible jobs.
He found this glass cliff and told about it then--and everybody said he was a liar.
This is the phenomenon dubbed the "glass cliff": women are brought into top management roles just as things get bad in order to clean up the mess.
Businesses need to have policies to stop people from falling over the glass cliff.
Beware the glass cliff - you'll get a lofty promotion, but failure will be guaranteed.