This article in Houston Chronicle discusses the importance of recruiting and hiring Third Culture Kids (TCK) as employees, especially when striving to do business overseas http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/business/sixel/5615068.html.

For those not familiar with the term, TCK are adults who had lived abroad for significant periods of time and thus have intimate knowledge not only of the other cultures, but also of what it’s like to adapt to them. In many cases they had to make challenging adjustments to the new cultures and by…

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Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) is front and center these days as many companies become increasingly aware and engaged in making a difference globally, regionally and/or locally. Idealists see this as a positive evolution on corporate social consciousness. Skeptics argue that CSR is nothing more than a trend, and a self-serving one at that, a PR ploy to make consumers believe that companies they buy from are doing good things in the world. Idealists come back with another perfectly defendable argument…

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