Abstract
Nothing prepares a leader for running a global organization quite as well as having spent some time abroad to personally experience the difficulties of executing projects and delivering results in a different culture. As we saw in Chapter 1, the lack of international experience has been mentioned as a reason for women not progressing to senior roles.
Abroad you have to try something new as your usual approach is unlikely to work.
(Jenny Newton, Senior Manager, Information Technology and Services Industry)
As businesses become more global, international experience is increasingly valuable. You need to have immersed yourself in it and ‘touched it, felt it and lived it’.
(Senior Manager, FTSE 100 Company)
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Wichert, I. (2011). International Assignments and Global Roles: Working Abroad. In: Where Have All the Senior Women Gone?. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230354258_5
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