A good friend, Jessie Bolin is going to work in South Africa for five weeks as a member of the IBM’s Corporate Services Corp. A program she describes as being like the peace corps. She and a team of 12 IBM’ers from different parts of the world (US, UK, India, Australia, Germany, Japan, Finland and New Zealand) and different disciplines ( Engineering, Sales, Marketing, Finance and Communications) will be working with local non profits to address specific business issues.
Six other teams like this from the IBM Corporate Services Corp, will be working on similar projects in China, Philippines, Romania, Ghana, Vietnam and Brazil. The question is what are the gives and gets and the motivations in this awesome adventure.
From IBM’s perspective, the goal is to develop leadership skills while helping to address the world’s socio-economic issues. From the participants viewpoint, I would guess similar goals, while having fun, travelling and living in a foreign country and developing a global perspective of your company with other folks in the company.
For the countries and the non profit – the goal is getting world class talents to work on some of the really important challenges they are facing with probably severely limited resources.
This is a truly interesting adventure for Jessie, and I hope to follow her experience, you can too through her blog at: http://www.jessieinsouthafrica.blogspot.com/
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