Chapter 4. The Immigrant Experience:
Surviving, Adapting, Excelling

To get through the hardest journey we need to take only one step at a time, but we must keep on stepping.

—Chinese Proverb

IT IS HARD TO IMAGINE HOW PEOPLE COULD LEAVE THE PLACE WHERE they were born and grew up, find themselves in an alien world with alien ways where no one speaks their language, and then ultimately end up running a major organization in their adopted homeland. But for many of the leaders in this chapter, the trials of immigration may be one of the reasons they rose up the leadership ranks.