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These blog entries and articles by Dr. Karine Schomer provide insights and useful tips for managers, teams and professionals working globally or leading and managing global multicultural teams. Browse, print, comment on and share with your colleagues and friends.

Why Global Professionals Need Special Leadership Skills
By Karine Schomer, PhD, CMCT President and India Practice Leader
Our advanced technological world is also a global world. And while it may be "one world" in many ways, it's still astonishingly diverse. If you're one of today's "global professionals" who works with, manages, sells to or engages in business relationships with people from different parts of the planet, you need global personal and team leadership skills.
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Global Differences in Work Style and How to Manage Them
By Karine Schomer, PhD, CMCT President and India Practice Leader
When you do business or manage globally, you encounter cultural differences in how tasks get accomplished, projects are carried out, and innovation takes place. Six management best practices can help you deal with the tension that can occur between free-flow spontaneous cultural approaches and approaches that place more emphasis on more structured adherence to plan, goals and timeline.
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Communication and Culture Tips for Global Managers
By Karine Schomer, PhD, CMCT President and India Practice Leader
When offshore outsourcing or other cross-border business ventures run into implementation difficulties, managers and team members often point to “communication problems” as the root cause. This attribution occurs both in anecdotal responses and in formal surveys.
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Improving the Cross-Cultural Competency of Offshore Teams
By Karine Schomer, PhD, CMCT President and India Practice Leader
When I present seminars on Indian business culture to American managers and technical professionals involved in offshoring or offshore outsourcing to India, someone inevitably asks, “So what are our offshore teams and counterparts in India being taught about American business culture?”
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Ten Key Cross-Cultural Management Skills
By Karine Schomer, PhD, CMCT President and India Practice Leader
Intercultural awareness and skill are not something you can achieve just by reading a "how-to" manual or learning a simple formula. To become a successful manager in the global IT workplace, you need to develop cultural awareness and the soft skills needed for managing in a culturally diverse environment. Here is a checklist of these key skills.
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Inclusive Organization Cultures
By Karine Schomer, PhD, CMCT President and India Practice Leader
The workforce of most high-tech companies is diverse. But is it truly multicultural? It's possible for a company to have diversity, but without inclusiveness. Here is a checklist of suggestions for what company leaders can do to foster a more inclusive corporate culture and derive benefit from the diversity of its employees.
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Building Multicultural Teams
By Karine Schomer, PhD, CMCT President and India Practice Leader
In high-tech companies, multicultural diversity is the norm rather than the exception. By design or by necessity, high-tech workplaces are increasingly "looking like the world." This diversity can be a problem or an opportunity. This article offers basic principles for avoiding common dysfunctions and successfully building multicultural teams.
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