Most of us as cross-cultural workers are well-accustomed to obeying in the hard decisions. After all, we left everything that was familiar and traveled to foreign lands filled with different languages, cultures, and customs. Many of us felt a clea...

I couldn’t believe the words that had come out of my mouth. I had just said I would be willing to go to a place I’d hated. When I’d left that country five years before, a friend asked if I would ever consider going back. I had adamantly avowed, “N...