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6 vital workplace skills you’ll need to succeed in the future

Career Advancement

Successful employees will use creative thinking to solve new problems that arise as a result of major organizational shifts and new technologies. To help your employees develop their creative thinking ability, challenge them to solicit a diverse range of perspectives when solving a problem.

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Global Team Leaders Must Deliberately Create "Moments"

Harvard Business Review

Typically people talk about the importance of stressing commonalities and similarities in the context of diversity of any sort. My colleague, Mark Mortensen, and I have identified two types of knowledge — direct and reflected — that help fill those awareness contextual gaps. Stressing differences.

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How to Build Trust with Colleagues You Rarely See

Harvard Business Review

With this in mind, there are two types of trust— swift trust and passable trust —that are useful to understand for people who work in global organizations. For global teams who communicate largely via electronic technology, passable trust is especially useful. Both types of trust have their limits, however.

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