Great article in Time this week by Lisa Takeuchi Cullen titled, The New Expatriates: Dazzling Growth and a Baffling Workplace Culture Greet U.S. Managers in China and India.

The article is well written and self explanatory. And can you give me one good reason why this could not be you?

I have nothing substantive to add to this Cullen article other than:

1. Check out some of my related previous blog posts on this very subject, and some of the semi-heated debate therein (particularly the first one):

Living and Working Abroad — Why Not?

Critical Success Qualities for Expat Mangers in China: And the Oscar Goes To ….

Do This Online Assignment!

2. I have followed some of Ms. Cullen’s work over the years. Here and there she seems to pick some unique topics to write about. See, e.g., her previous pieces on:

Japanese women who fetishize black US servicemen in Okinawa

Asia’s plastic surgery phenomenon

Japan’s pop-star machinery

Asia. How can you help but not love this place?