Expatriatus https://blog.iese.edu/expatriatus ex-patriā-tus [lat.] from ex "out of" and patriā "fatherland" Mon, 21 Sep 2026 06:47:15 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1 Dear Distance: What “The Correspondent” Teaches Us About Proximity https://blog.iese.edu/expatriatus/2026/09/21/dear-distance-what-the-correspondent-teaches-us-about-proximity/ https://blog.iese.edu/expatriatus/2026/09/21/dear-distance-what-the-correspondent-teaches-us-about-proximity/#respond Mon, 21 Sep 2026 06:47:15 +0000 https://blog.iese.edu/expatriatus/?p=3722 Virginia Evans’ debut novel The Correspondent has become one of the literary surprises of the past year. The novel follows Sybil Van Antwerp, a retired lawyer living alone in Annapolis. She is the divorced mother of two living adult children and one who died when he was eight. The story is told entirely through the […]

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]]> https://blog.iese.edu/expatriatus/2026/09/21/dear-distance-what-the-correspondent-teaches-us-about-proximity/feed/ 0 Distance Was Never the Problem https://blog.iese.edu/expatriatus/2026/08/05/distance-was-never-the-problem/ https://blog.iese.edu/expatriatus/2026/08/05/distance-was-never-the-problem/#respond Wed, 05 Aug 2026 13:27:59 +0000 https://blog.iese.edu/expatriatus/?p=3717 Picture the assignment we would all call a success. Eighteen months in, she has the language. She knows which meetings matter and which are theatre. Her local colleagues have stopped explaining things to her. When she pushes back in a meeting, nobody hears an outsider pushing back — they hear a colleague. Ask anyone in […]

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]]> https://blog.iese.edu/expatriatus/2026/08/05/distance-was-never-the-problem/feed/ 0 When Returning Home No Longer Feels Like Returning https://blog.iese.edu/expatriatus/2026/07/09/when-returning-home-no-longer-feels-like-returning/ https://blog.iese.edu/expatriatus/2026/07/09/when-returning-home-no-longer-feels-like-returning/#respond Thu, 09 Jul 2026 16:09:58 +0000 https://blog.iese.edu/expatriatus/?p=3701 This is a guest entry by Nandika Puri Nandika has been an expat for eight years, living in two countries and building a career now seven years long. She met her partner abroad and earned her MBA along the way and has quietly fallen for a different version of herself in each city she’s called […]

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]]> https://blog.iese.edu/expatriatus/2026/07/09/when-returning-home-no-longer-feels-like-returning/feed/ 0 Choose Your Anchors Well: The Hidden Power of First Impressions in Global Work https://blog.iese.edu/expatriatus/2026/06/02/choose-your-anchors-well-the-hidden-power-of-first-impressions-in-global-work/ https://blog.iese.edu/expatriatus/2026/06/02/choose-your-anchors-well-the-hidden-power-of-first-impressions-in-global-work/#respond Tue, 02 Jun 2026 09:35:02 +0000 https://blog.iese.edu/expatriatus/?p=3692 On a recent family trip to a shopping mall, our younger daughter pointed to a drastically reduced product and enthusiastically lobbied for us to purchase it. After all, it seemed so cheap. The original price was prominently displayed, crossed out, and replaced by a much lower number. The discount appeared irresistible. So I found myself […]

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]]> https://blog.iese.edu/expatriatus/2026/06/02/choose-your-anchors-well-the-hidden-power-of-first-impressions-in-global-work/feed/ 0 Black Gold and Global Work: Why Oil Still Shapes Cross-Border Mobility https://blog.iese.edu/expatriatus/2026/05/08/black-gold-and-global-work-why-oil-still-shapes-cross-border-mobility/ https://blog.iese.edu/expatriatus/2026/05/08/black-gold-and-global-work-why-oil-still-shapes-cross-border-mobility/#respond Fri, 08 May 2026 13:27:38 +0000 https://blog.iese.edu/expatriatus/?p=3689 There is a commodity that sits beneath almost every international business trip, expatriate relocation, and cross-border supply chain, yet we rarely name it. Oil. At first glance, this may seem like an old-world concern. After all, we live in an age of digital collaboration, virtual teams, AI-enabled work, and increasingly sophisticated alternatives to physical travel. […]

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]]> https://blog.iese.edu/expatriatus/2026/05/08/black-gold-and-global-work-why-oil-still-shapes-cross-border-mobility/feed/ 0 The Middle East Crisis and the Future of Global Work https://blog.iese.edu/expatriatus/2026/04/09/the-middle-east-crisis-and-the-future-of-global-work/ https://blog.iese.edu/expatriatus/2026/04/09/the-middle-east-crisis-and-the-future-of-global-work/#respond Thu, 09 Apr 2026 06:59:31 +0000 https://blog.iese.edu/expatriatus/?p=3682 The world has rarely felt as volatile as it does right now. What began as a regional conflict has become, in the space of just a few months, one of the most consequential shocks to the global economy since the COVID-19 pandemic. The war in the Middle East, and the cascading disruptions it has unleashed, […]

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]]> https://blog.iese.edu/expatriatus/2026/04/09/the-middle-east-crisis-and-the-future-of-global-work/feed/ 0 Managing Change in Global Work: Why Your History Matters More Than You Think https://blog.iese.edu/expatriatus/2026/03/18/managing-change-in-global-work-why-your-history-matters-more-than-you-think/ https://blog.iese.edu/expatriatus/2026/03/18/managing-change-in-global-work-why-your-history-matters-more-than-you-think/#respond Wed, 18 Mar 2026 14:56:50 +0000 https://blog.iese.edu/expatriatus/?p=3675 The world of global work has never been short of disruptions. Geopolitical crises, shifting trade policies, travel restrictions, or technological upheaval, these are not occasional blips but recurring features of cross-border professional life. And yet, when we think about how global professionals manage these disruptions, we tend to focus almost entirely on the disruption itself: […]

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]]> https://blog.iese.edu/expatriatus/2026/03/18/managing-change-in-global-work-why-your-history-matters-more-than-you-think/feed/ 0 The Case for Strategic Idleness in a Global Role https://blog.iese.edu/expatriatus/2026/02/25/the-case-for-strategic-idleness-in-a-global-role/ https://blog.iese.edu/expatriatus/2026/02/25/the-case-for-strategic-idleness-in-a-global-role/#respond Wed, 25 Feb 2026 07:53:22 +0000 https://blog.iese.edu/expatriatus/?p=3671 Having just returned from our annual family skiing trip, I find myself once again struck by a paradox: six hours a day on the slopes leaves your legs aching and your lungs burning, yet you come back to the office not depleted but genuinely recharged. The physical exhaustion is real, but the cognitive renewal is […]

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]]> https://blog.iese.edu/expatriatus/2026/02/25/the-case-for-strategic-idleness-in-a-global-role/feed/ 0 Learning to Stay: Why Stability Might Be the New Global Mobility Skill https://blog.iese.edu/expatriatus/2026/01/19/learning-to-stay-why-stability-might-be-the-new-global-mobility-skill/ https://blog.iese.edu/expatriatus/2026/01/19/learning-to-stay-why-stability-might-be-the-new-global-mobility-skill/#respond Mon, 19 Jan 2026 13:55:10 +0000 https://blog.iese.edu/expatriatus/?p=3667 Over 18 years. That’s how long I’ve called Barcelona home—longer than I’ve lived anywhere else in my adult life. For someone whose career spanned countries like Germany, France, Singapore and Australia, this wasn’t the script I imagined. Like many globally mobile professionals, I spent my early career chasing the next opportunity, the next horizon. Each […]

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]]> https://blog.iese.edu/expatriatus/2026/01/19/learning-to-stay-why-stability-might-be-the-new-global-mobility-skill/feed/ 0 Exit Wounds: On the Beautiful Ache of Being Multicultural https://blog.iese.edu/expatriatus/2025/12/05/exit-wounds-on-the-beautiful-ache-of-being-multicultural/ https://blog.iese.edu/expatriatus/2025/12/05/exit-wounds-on-the-beautiful-ache-of-being-multicultural/#respond Fri, 05 Dec 2025 09:39:22 +0000 https://blog.iese.edu/expatriatus/?p=3655 My father-in-law recently shared Peter Godwin’s memoir “Exit Wounds: A Story of Love, Loss, and Occasional Wars” with me. Like my father-in-law, who grew up in Zimbabwe before migrating to Australia, Godwin is intimately familiar with the peculiar grief of belonging to multiple places and none fully. Born and raised in Zimbabwe, educated in England, […]

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