How happy are global companies with their current global mobility structures? The need for globally mobile employees has certainly risen by over 60 percent in recent years. However, only 18 percent of global firms are entirely happy, with 40 percent of global firms saying they...
Here’s one important advice to global mobility managers as they start 2020: help your assignees build strong friendships that they --- and perhaps, even you --- can count on. We’re not talking about enriching their social media networks either. Tagging them, twittering in their online conversations,...
How would Silicon Valley look like in the next decade? A new extensive report from the McKinsey Global Institute, “The future of work in America: People and places, today and tomorrow,” sees how the labor market will be propelled by the next wave of automation...
What does repatriation feel like? Going back to one’s country of origin after years of being elsewhere is a bit like -- someone joked -- atmospheric re-entry. It’s never easy for anyone coming from thousands of miles. It feels like coming from outer space. Virtual assignments...
More than a decade ago, the book “A Purpose-Driven Life” captured the imagination and attention of the reading public. Authored by Rick Warren, it drove home the point that a life built toward achieving a personal vision through doable steps would ultimately be more productive,...
If anyone thinks the work culture of the United States and some parts of Southeast Asia are vastly different, think again: that gap is going to widen again. In a recent phone conversation between an American entrepreneur and his Asian contact, the latter instantly asked how...