Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic

But then if you make it, everything is better and easier.

So there's a lot to be said also about having the capacity as an economy to absorb people who come from other places because they have an appetite to make it and they're not able to make it where they come from.

You're part of the 6%.

When you spend time not just living, but also operating and working in different places, it's inevitable that you are very sensitive to the differences, but it's also inevitable that you see what's similar.

Today, when I think about the conversations I have with executives, CHROs, CEOs, board members, there's a couple of things that are universal.

They're all thinking about how to navigate the human AI

era or interface, you know, which goes from translating investment in AI into adoption first, and then ROI, and also how to humanize their culture so that they can have an augmentation strategy and not an automation kind of outcome or result.

The other thing is the fundamentals, the essentials of leadership are the same anywhere.

Can you persuade a group of people to collaborate effectively in pursuit of something that is higher than their individualistic or selfish agendas?

Can you create a winning team, a winning organization?

What's your legacy?

At Russ Reynolds, we have our wonderful leadership portrait model, which looks a lot at leadership potential.

That's something that happens everywhere.

I think leaders everywhere understand that it's less and less important

meaningful to look at what leaders have accomplished in the past their past performance their expertise their experience and more and more we're needing to look at their potential the soft skills leadership capabilities their ability to span and so forth then you have the differences and of course the cultural nuances are important you know my latest book is on authenticity which if you go around the globe

has such different connotations and implications.

In the US, especially in the West Coast, bringing your whole self to work, just being yourself, it's kind of worship, celebrated, et cetera.

You go as far as New York and people are more skeptical.

You get to London and people are like, my God, really?

I mean, come on.