No More Year in Paris?

Recent shifts in the global economy dictate changes in employee skills and employer investment. The nature of the international corporation has also transformed, requiring cultural adaptability—not of just a few senior leaders but of many emerging leaders in its ranks. These factors, and others, have converged to require a complete reengineering of the concept of international assignment. It needs to be viewed as an intense leadership-development and learning experience where new skills and new insights can be cultivated, and where building the skills of local staff is an equally important by-product.

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