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What Every Leader Should Know About Expatriate Effectiveness

Meena S. Wilson and Maxine A. Dalton

With increased international activity, organizations are depending more and more for their success on expatriate managers—that is, on managers who work in a country or culture other than their own. The performance of expatriates, however, especially those from the United States, is often poor.

The difficulty of the work certainly plays a significant role in the performance problem. Consider this observation from one besieged expatriate: “Everything about this job is bigger than I thought it would be. Nothing in my career prepared me for the magnitude ...

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