ABSTRACT
This chapter talks story about two brothers in the intermediate part of their lives. They represent two world perspectives that collide and clash, with each pulling the other in a way that makes their adult development difficult. They have chosen their home of origin as the location to grow again, and while they are transforming externally what home means and what it looks like, they are still maintaining internally the core family system dynamics in which they grew up. This internal and external mixing of two cultures and mental models of life connected through a common history at present is playing out in the global community in which they have chosen to work. American intellectual adaptation and risk-taking, which come more easily to the older brother, are keys to the company’s initial success, but they may also be seen to collide with the French rural values of stability, social class, and economic/social dependency.
