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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

A kaizen—continuous improvement—ethos is one thing. I’ve seen it happen, and careers ended when it did. ” If your organization cares about innovation or transforming customer service or being data-driven, how do you lead by example? It is more “box ticking” than human capital investment.