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:
Women were often left teetering on a glass cliff after being handed impossible jobs.
This lack of support for women and minorities is central to the glass cliff phenomenon.
Beware the glass cliff - you'll get a lofty promotion, but failure will be guaranteed.
Businesses need to have policies to stop people from falling over the glass cliff.
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.
He found this glass cliff and told about it then--and everybody said he was a liar.
