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  • How to manage conflict effectively?

    Recently, I had disagreements with a team member from Taiwan on certain projects, and we engaged in intense debates privately. Personally, I didn’t feel that these heated discussions would affect our relationship.However, afterwards, this team member started apologizing to me, feeling that her tone was inappropriate.

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  • How to build trust in different cultures?

    When we started to merge with a new team, I feel the first thing we need to do is to build trust between the team members. When reading Erin Meyer’s book ‘Culture Map’, I realized the way people establish trust is very different in different cultures.

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  • How to convince others in different cultures?

    I particularly remember my first French boss when I worked in Singapore. On my first day of work, he printed out dozens of pages of company policies and asked me to read them one by one. (I fell asleep reading them on a chair that afternoon…sorry, this is a bit off-topic.)

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