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9781740311304

Away Game Australians in American Boardrooms

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    9781740311304

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    1740311302

  • Edition: 1st
  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2006-05-22
  • Publisher: Wiley
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Summary

Thousands of Australians have left their homeland to try their luck in the world\'s richest country, where for a small elite the rewards for success can be immense, including multimillion-dollar salaries, celebrity status and tremendous professional fullment. In recent years Australians have led iconic American companies such as Coca-Cola, Ford and McDonald\'s, and they increasingly fill top executive ranks across the business spectrum, from finance to book publishing to journalism to scientific research.Yet is it worth it? In Away Game , based on personal interviews with the author, some of our top professionals working in the United States tell of their own experiences, of why they left their homeland, of the culture shock of living in America, and of their anguish over whether they will ever return to Australia.

Author Biography

Luke Collins is a freelance writer whose work appears regularly in publications including the New York times, the Financial times, the Bulletin, AFR BOSS and AFR Magazine. He is a former New York correspondent for the Australian Financial Review and writes a weekly column for the Herald Sun newspaper. He lives in New York.

Table of Contents

Preface
One million Australians
A Bigger Sea
The Whole at Your Feet
Two Cultures Divided by a Common Language
Straight Talking: Nobody Here Does Frank
The Burdens of Integration
The Last Men Standing
Coming Home
Closing the Circle: The Lure of Home
The World's Best Fallback Position
Acknowledgements
Index
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