IMPACTROOM for managers, marketeers and mothers*: Boomerang professionals

Tuesday, May 08, 2007

Boomerang professionals

Nickname used to describe US managers of Indian origin who are asked to go back to India to work as an expat in their home country after having earned their stripes at a Western company.

It seems there is a hugh demand for ambitious global managers in India. Indian recruiters from prestigious search firms are looking for expatriate talent. A word of warning though: to flourish as a foreigner in India, "your really have to be psyched for it; it is a love-hate place," says a Goldman Sachs topmanager stationed in India.

About Impactroom

Impactroom is a personal research blog on life, leadership and management issues by Gert Van Mol.

Gert Van Mol founded The Wall Street Journal Europe Future Leadership Institute (later to become 'The Future Leadership Institute') as well as The International Student Senate. He is also Non-Executive Director EU Policy at OLPC (One Laptop Per Child). Between 2011 and 2013 he was CEO of the TV station Life!tv. In 2013 he became CEO of Skyview, an Amsterdam company installing permanent Giant Ferris Wheels in top tier European cities. In 2015 he was asked to execute the Chapter 11 (WCO) conditions of www.foto.com for the Belgian court of Nivelles.

About the Impactroom idea

Impactroom evolves around questions such as: What is the difference between a manager and a leader ? Should we read expensive managementguru books or just pass them around as gifts ? Are excellent male managers better fathers ? Why are managers spending more time with their colleagues than with their own family ?

About the 'Mothers*' in the title of this blog? Mothers are managers by nature, although they don't see it that way most of the time. Important lessons are to be learned from women with children. They are the future topmanagers.

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