CHAPTER 4

ATTRACTING AND RECRUITING FOR CULTURAL AGILITY

Originally from Argentina, Marcelo Baudino recalls being inexplicably drawn to an international career by the time he was a teenager. His home city of Córdoba is located in the center of Argentina, quite far from the neighboring countries of Chile, Bolivia, Paraguay, Brazil, and Uruguay, countries Marcelo visited briefly as a child on family vacations. His middle-class upbringing was hardly the picture of a cross-culturally rich environment. Marcelo remained in Córdoba for university, attending the Universidad Blas Pascal. Not much changed in Marcelo’s transition to university; his friends in college were identical to him on almost every salient demographic dimension. But even with such ...

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