Crowded cabin
I walked down the aisle to my seat on a plane headed to China. It’s a stopover on my way to Singapore, my home for the next two months.
Looking at the faces filling the crowded cabin, I felt oddly at home. Although spending the last four months at INSEAD, a world renowned international business program in France, has instilled in me a greater cultural sensitivity, this wasn’t the primary reason for my familiarity with my environment. The cultural diversity represented by the faces of the people staring back at me reminded me of my home in Los Angeles.
I had been fortunate to travel quite a bit but this was different. I set out in late August of 2009 with a one-way ticket to France to seek adventure, as always, and in the process to develop my Global Instinct — an instinct that lies at the heart of the international businesses, geopolitical issues, and diverse cultures that drive the world today. An instinct that I believe is necessary to thrive in times of worldwide scarcity. This blog is a vehicle by which to experience my adventures abroad and a window into this process, my process. The evolution of the lens by which I will interpret the barrage of information and shifting attitudes underlying the global trends that will define the future. Welcome to Project Global Instinct.
