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How to Successfully Work Across Countries, Languages, and Cultures

Harvard Business Review

According to a recent McKinsey Global Institute report , the number of people in the global labor force will reach 3.5 The result is likely to be intensified global competition for talent. Our ways of thinking about careers, colleagues, and collaboration will need to become more flexible and adaptable.

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The Trouble with Mary Chen

Harvard Business Review

But when a Chinese manager joins a foreign-owned firm, she will have to learn to play by new rules, because her career and salary now depend on foreign supervisors based in faraway places such as New York or London and who come to China no more than twice a year. Chinese managers and owners in Chinese-owned businesses play by the same rules.