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How to Successfully Work Across Countries, Languages, and Cultures

Harvard Business Review

Our ways of thinking about careers, colleagues, and collaboration will need to become more flexible and adaptable. The Japanese employees, while already fluent with Japanese concepts such as kaizen (improvement) and omotenashi (hospitality), struggled to become proficient in English. Aspiring to a global career.

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How the Navy SEALs Train for Leadership Excellence

Harvard Business Review

Webb, who served in the Navy from 1993 to 2006 and radically redesigned the SEAL training course curriculum, graciously shared his insight about what works – and what fails – when effecting a training transformation. .” A kaizen—continuous improvement—ethos is one thing.