Between Past and Future

About the Book

Director, teamleader, dean, large-system consultant, from decades in several South Asian countries and organisational settings this father distills key episodes in having and bringing up three children in new places: births and an adoption, schools, making and leaving friends, crises, building a house to anchor the family, culture shock in reverse when moving “back” West. All while father is absorbed in work and ensuring career and income long-term. A Danish cross-cultural psychologist long practicing in China confirmed that these issues commonly trouble expatriate fathers. The children’s comments throughout- a most unusual feature – add inter-generational depths to this actual up-down story of a father managing intriguing work along with family life which ends with special guidelines for fathers on the move.

About the Author

Rolf Lynton, naturalized British, has worked and consulted in various industrial settings in the UK. A Harvard Business School fellowship led to an American wife and on to a career in South Asia: starting a training centre for leaders in newly independent countries, team leader of consultants to central ministries in India and Indonesia, and helping start a population center and a new professional school in two US state universities. He has published over a dozen professional books and holds prominent memberships, offices and awards in professional societies in India and the USA. The Lyntons’ three children were born and began school in South Asia.