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Global Team Leaders Must Deliberately Create "Moments"

Harvard Business Review

Global teams face the challenge of having to operate with limited face-to-face contact and across vast distances, time zones, language backgrounds, and contexts, as well as cultural differences. Four types of moments make material difference: 1. Structuring "unstructured" time.

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Olympic Host Cities Need Transparency, Not Knowledge Transfer

Harvard Business Review

From the moment I stepped off the bus at the rowing venue, I felt reassured that the London Olympic Games were operating like a well-oiled machine. Certainly, knowledge transfer has been a priority of the International Olympic Committee (IOC). Difficulty of getting the whole story. Contractual commitment.