A talented product manager moves from Bogotá to Berlin. Her metrics are strong, her team trusts her, yet she keeps hearing small comments: “Could you say that again, more clearly?” “Let’s have James handle the client call—he’s more… fluent.” No one is overtly hostile. Still, over time, the message is unmistakable: your ideas are fine, but…

If you want to understand global work in 2025, start where very few people actually look: the chips. Stephen Witt’s book, The Thinking Machine: Jensen Huang, Nvidia, and the World’s Most Coveted Microchip, which I just finished reading, is part biography, part business history, part supply-chain thriller. It traces how Nvidia—founded in 1993, reportedly brainstormed…

In today’s world, doing global work is getting harder. The geopolitical landscape—fractured alliances, renewed nationalism, sanctions, airspace restrictions, and unpredictable regulation—combined with macro-economic headwinds like inflation, energy costs, and supply chain stress, have made everything from travel to deployment of talent more expensive and time-consuming. For anyone working across borders, these changes are no longer…