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Boss Makes Decision without You

Posted on October 24, 2018 by Theresa Sigillito Hollema

You are attending a meeting with your virtual team. Everything seems to be going well, and then the team leader mentions a decision she recently made about an interface element with another team. She had attended a regular meeting of the other team and provided them with an update on the progress of your team.

Posted in Culture Cubes, Team Development, Working Across Cultures, Working Virtually

Who Needs to Answer Your Question?

Posted on September 12, 2018 by Theresa Sigillito Hollema

How would you feel and what would you do? You send an email to a colleague asking for her opinion. You think it is a quick question deserving a quick response. You know she is available to read the email as you see she is present on chat. She even sends an email reply –

Posted in Culture Cubes, Working Across Cultures

Don’t you trust me?

Posted on September 12, 2018 by Theresa Sigillito Hollema

How would you feel and what would you do? You are the leader of a virtual team with team members located in 5 different countries. During the past weeks, you and the team have been working on the project plan, and today the tasks were assigned and agreed. The team members seemed ok with the

Posted in Culture Cubes, Working Across Cultures

Lesssons From a Global Language

Posted on March 28, 2018 by Nita Korsten

How Rakuten turned into a Global Giant – Language and Culture Lessons for Companies with a Common Business Language For years I have been intrigued by how language and culture influence each other. I often address this relationship with international teams, many of which strongly relate to this subject, particularly if their members are multilingual.

Posted in Corporate Culture, Working Across Cultures

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