{"id":8775,"date":"2026-07-01T04:57:22","date_gmt":"2026-07-01T02:57:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ivarraav.com\/uncategorized\/when-you-become-a-resident-of-another-country\/"},"modified":"2026-07-03T05:01:53","modified_gmt":"2026-07-03T03:01:53","slug":"when-you-become-a-resident-of-another-country","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ivarraav.com\/en\/governance\/when-you-become-a-resident-of-another-country\/","title":{"rendered":"When you become a resident of another country."},"content":{"rendered":"\n

I work primarily in Estonia and with Estonians, but I have an increasing number of clients from all over the world. I suppose there\u2019s a logic to this, since my approach to leadership is somewhat different from what a traditional organization would dare to adopt. Of course, there are many organizations in Estonia that do this as well, but globally there are even more. This is especially true on public speaking stages, which will be one of my main outlets in the future. Comments from Estonian organizations that \u201cwe\u2019re not ready for your approach yet\u201d occasionally surprise me, because Estonia, in fact, has more startups and successful new initiatives per capita than anywhere else\u2014initiatives that have transformed how that business sector operates and are doing things very differently (from the early days of Skype to today\u2019s Bolt and Wise \u2014entire economic sectors have been transformed by their innovations).I hope that one day Estonia will be the very place from which high-quality leadership is exported to the world, and that we will not simply adopt American solutions that do not fit our cultural context, but rather create something ourselves that would transform the image and approach to management as a business field around the world. As one of my colleagues from Sweden, a leadership trainer, said: it\u2019s time for organizations to change the way we treat one another in the corporate world. Yesterday, June 29, I officially became a resident of Brazil. I still live and work mainly in Estonia, but going through this process and receiving this document changed something inside me. After leaving the local Federal Police station, the things that had bothered me about Brazil (the list is long, haha) suddenly seemed endearing and familiar. Although I\u2019m returning to Estonia in just a week (two months earlier than originally planned) and will continue working with many clients right here in Estonia, this one document has somehow changed my worldview. Okay, sure, it\u2019s like a trophy for overcoming the tedious bureaucracy of paperwork and the like, but still\u2026 it marked a shift in my perspective on internationalism and a desire to contribute on a broader scale. Especially in today\u2019s world, where the internal cultures of large multicultural organizations are, at times, more important than national cultures themselves. In any case, it\u2019s an extremely strange feeling, and yet it opens many doors that wouldn\u2019t be open to a tourist. From a very different sense of belonging to the right to have opportunities similar to those of locals\u2014for example, working in Brazil or opening a local bank account with a local ID number, etc. Perhaps this is just one step toward bringing a new approach to leadership to the world? As one of the beta readers for my next book wrote to me: \u201cYour book is like a breath of fresh air in a room filled with stale air from the old management paradigm.\u201d But the point of this post isn\u2019t to promote my next book\u2014there\u2019s still plenty of time before it comes out anyway, and all of this will be forgotten\u2014but simply to share this train of thought: that perhaps this \u201cwe\u2019re not ready yet\u201d is simply a form of timidity or fear of the unknown\u2014and that, by giving ourselves permission to move forward, we begin to notice the broader impact of our actions and the broader world\u2019s influence on our actions\u2014in other words, the extent to which everything is ONE.<\/p>\n\n

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