Global Leadership Category
New eyes
Posted on March 9, 2025 1 Comment
March 9, 2025 When the wheels touched down in Baton Rouge on the evening of February 22nd, it marked my return from my second trip to DC in 2025. I had also been to Southeast Asia twice since the year began. While travel can bequeath “new eyes,” as Marcel Proust famously wrote, it can also […]
Fruitful Work in Thailand, Winter 2023-2024
Posted on February 13, 2024 1 Comment
13 February 2024 This winter, I had the privilege to travel to Thailand with family for an assortment of professional and personal activities that were wonderfully fruitful — literally and figuratively. While our time was action-packed, I want to highlight my experience leading my study abroad program and my time guest lecturing at Chulalongkorn University. […]
There and Back Again
Posted on August 11, 2022 Leave a Comment
11 August 2022 My apologies to diehard Tolkien fans for borrowing the title of Bilbo Baggins’ book of adventures for a post about our trip to Thailand May-July 2022. My guess is you’ll understand why I chose this title by the end of this post. We left for Thailand on May 18. I got the […]
Language, culture, and global teams
Posted on July 2, 2017 Leave a Comment
One of my favorite professors at Harvard was a quirky cosmopolitan named Bruno della Chiesa. Bruno, as he insisted we call him, taught a January-term course called Learning in a Globalizing World in which he investigated the nexus of educational neuroscience, language, and culture. One thing that stuck with me – although it was not […]
What is global leadership? Well… how do you measure it?
Posted on June 24, 2017 2 Comments
Nobel prize winning physicist Richard Feynman tells a charming story about being asked the name of a bird by one of his schoolmates. He doesn’t know the name of the bird so the other boy proudly instructs him that the bird is called a Brown-Throated Thrush. Feynman goes on to explain in the video, however, […]
How international assignments can develop global leadership capacities
Posted on June 16, 2017 Leave a Comment
In a recent post in The Economist blog Gulliver, B.R. writes that businesses should encourage young employees to take “bleisure” (blending business with pleasure) when they travel abroad, like an extra weekend on one end for personal time. The benefit being that “it might help keep employees’ enthusiasm for a life on the road kindled.” […]
Oliver S. Crocco 