doing the best of who you are, wherever you are

Crossing cultures to turn our perspectives upside-down and inside-out.
To quote Derek Sivers from his two-minute “TED Talk”  below, “I love that we need to go to the other side of the world to realize assumptions we never knew we had and realize that the opposite of them may also be true.”
Thanks Derek — you did it again!
http://www.ted.com/talks/derek_sivers_weird_or_just_different.html
a presto,
Elizabeth

Carlos is an Argentinian international executive who speaks five languages and has lived and worked in 12 different counties during his career. His answer to a question about what it takes to succeed abroad — on a “linked in” forum — is below. I think he just about says it all!
Honestly, for me, an expat [...]

“New” US-based management and leadership theories sound like business as usual to anyone living outside the Anglo-Saxon cultural mindset.   In his recent book, “The Big Things: 163 Ways to Pursue Excellence”, Tom Peters highlights over and over the importance of building relationships. There is even a section dedicated to LUNCH (!!) and why it [...]

Don Miguel outlines the principles of Ancient Toltec wisdom in his book, The Four Agreements: A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom.
Before getting to the agreements, he first talks about how we do not originally choose our beliefs, but we agree with the information passed on to us (from our parents, society and religion) that we [...]