Financial Times: Global Souls to Run Global Company - Human Capital Alliance Inc.
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William Barnes, Financial Times
Managers at international businesses must expect to move country regularly. Could this help create a class of cosmopolitan, constantly mobile workers?
Nick Leeson...
, the legendary destroyer of the 233-year-old Barings Bank, was by his own admission naive, immature and unworldly when he was working in Singapore in the 1990s.
Left unsupervised he secretly ran up £830m in trading losses before he was discovered. Barings was subsequently sold to a Dutch bank for £1.
Raw pride and a reluctance to admit that he was failing stopped him telling anyone about his rapidly climbing losses, he explained in a recently published book.
Mr. Leeson did not claim to be discombobulated by working in an alien environment, indeed he enjoyed the tropical social life. But he has said that if he could put the clock back, he would not have got on the plane to Singapore.
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