Being a power user on LinkedIn for most of the last 20 years, I have seen ups and downs with the platform. While I did not really like LinkedIn in the early days of my business, it became my best replacement for the collection of business cards and Rolodex I would have used in the olden days (and now I sound like my grandmother). While I don’t do phone calls anymore, and nobody seems to call anyone these days spontaneously, I have noticed a shift in my excitement about being on LinkedIn in January. I think it was mainly an algorithm change, but the current content doesn’t excite me anymore. I also changed my security settings to be a more […]

An expatriate (“expat”) is an individual living and working in a country other than their country of citizenship, often temporarily and for work reasons. They are usually sent abroad by a multinational employer (profit or non-profit). Managers often criticize expats who take up expensive international assignments for “underperforming” in their host locations. But nobody knows why that is. We don’t have data to prove this. A study by Learnlight shows that four in ten international assignments are judged to be a failure. And yet the number of overseas assignments continues to rise. Global companies are under considerable pressure to determine what makes a successful overseas assignment and to understand why they so often fail. However, what has been so often […]

Some of us feel a bit low in December. There are several reasons for that. One might be that you look back on the year and feel you have not made great strides: You worked hard, but you did not necessarily achieve the financial success you had envisioned. Or your health took a toll from everything you are trying to juggle at once. You dread Mondays. Instead of starting your laptop to go through another day of meetings (that could have been an email), you look at the globe you got from your grandmother as a kid. You have been sitting at this desk for too long and wish to smell the spices in a market in Amritsar, walk through […]

When I had Covid-19 the first time in 2020 I was one of the first cases in Switzerland and advice was hard to come by. I created a guideline for myself and others: Top Nine Tips to Deal With Viral Infections. it’s four years later, and many times I felt I had COVID again, but I did not test positive anymore. Maybe the first time was such a huge dose that I am now WonderWoman (a secret escape fantasy I had after I recovered as WW was always my childhood superhero role model, and the movie “WW 1984” was supposed to be out at the same time, so I listened to the music during recovery). What I have noticed though […]

Despite what is happening in the world I have been keeping myself really busy. Honestly, getting stuff done gives me deep satisfaction and having a lot of great client conversations raises my energy level to the max. So, I personally feel that I work on my mission to bring the Human Touch back into Global Mobility and my team is helping me along.