Several years ago in one of my blog posts I posed a question whether starting an expatriate assignment requires more company support than repatriation. Despite the common logic that going abroad to a new and unfamiliar place should be more challenging than returning home to a familiar place, this notion couldn’t be further from reality.…

Imagine a person, who sits in a restaurant in front of you, asking you to pass her ‘that plate on the right’… Would you reach out for the plate to your right or to your left? The answer may lie in perspective taking, meaning that if you would take the perspective of the other person,…

Although many consider globalization to be the buzzword of the last decades, economic historians would argue that globalization has a history that stretches back thousands of years. As brought up in a relevant Economist article, the trend of trade expansion is linked to specialization and is ‘nearly as old as civilization’. The process seems quite…