Chapter 13Advancing in the 21st Century: “Who and How” in the “New and Now”

Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less.

—Marie Curie1

Mission Statement

When the ladder changes to footholds and the wall looks like a mountain…

My older sister, Rodney (she was supposed to have been a boy), has spent the past 22 years with her husband teaching at international schools, first in Thailand and as I referenced earlier, more recently in China. As an educator and savvy editor I asked her to take a look at Your Ultimate Success Plan. She thumbed through the Contents and announced there were two big “misses”: “Where are your chapters on cultural differentiation and what about ...

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