If your company does business internationally, you're probably leading teams with members from diverse cultural backgrounds. Those differences can present serious obstacles. For example, some members' ...

The effects of a globalized world are nothing new. More and more often, we find ourselves working side by side colleagues from different cultures and countries or regularly Skyping with ...

After years of leading teams across Australia, the United States and the Philippines, it has become clear to me that these three cultures form a rare combination.

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Culture is a way of life of a people, including their attitudes, values, beliefs, arts, sciences, ways of perception, and habits that are passed down from generation to generation. And in the grand ...

As the business world gets ever more connected, it's more critical than ever for global organizations to recruit, develop, and retain multicultural leaders who can navigate the myriad opportunities ...

In an increasingly globalized economy, people from different cultures and backgrounds find themselves working together more and more frequently. Even when people are willing and eager to work together ...

Paul Heilbronner, EVP Global HR, Axway, discusses how to manage multicultural teams and highlights some of the benefits and challenges they may bring. A generation ago, most organisations employed a ...

IT managers know that multicultural teams create multifaceted challenges. Subtle obstacles to teamwork resulting from cultural or linguistic disconnects can cause real damage before a manager even ...

Everyone knows that a little confrontation from time to time is constructive, right? And the classic business literature confirms it. Patrick Lencioni’s Five Dysfunctions of a Team, for example, ...