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How to Successfully Work Across Countries, Languages, and Cultures

Harvard Business Review

Two groups had the steepest learning curve in particular. Interactions are also vital for sharing knowledge across sites. The English language mandate, however, set off all sorts of linguistic and cultural challenges. These challenges differed depending on people’s backgrounds and location.

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Why Staff Turnover in the White House Is Such a Bad Thing — Especially For President Trump

Harvard Business Review

The members of high performance teams have a high level of tacit knowledge about one another — in other words, they understand each other on a personal level that stretches far beyond knowledge of each other’s resumes. Second, the learning curve for new hires is more daunting.