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How to Successfully Work Across Countries, Languages, and Cultures

Harvard Business Review

Two groups had the steepest learning curve in particular. They hailed from countries as diverse as Brazil, France, Germany, Indonesia, Taiwan, and Thailand, and all demonstrated the characteristics of what I call global work orientation. The desire to learn English and work abroad seemed to reinforce one another.

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Surgeons Are Using Social Media to Share and Learn New Skills

Harvard Business Review

.” “Being a young attending in an area where not many are doing advanced robotics cases, being able to come to this [group] and learn from everyone here has become not only part of my continuing education, but now part of my daily life and practice. … [It] has definitely made me a better surgeon.”

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