Thought Leadership - Strengthening Global Teams Through Problem-Solving Culture
Introduction In my work leading Quality at VEGA Americas, Inc.—part of a global company headquartered in Schiltach, Germany, with manufacturing locations in China, India, and Mason, Ohio—I've learned that the hard parts of cross-border work rarely announce themselves cleanly. A regulatory requirement shifts in one region before the others have caught up. A customer expectation in Ohio doesn't translate the same way in Schiltach. A decision made with confidence in one time zone lands with confusion in
Thought Leadership - VEGA Americas
The Road to Successful Cross-Cultural Projects It has been established that diverse teams tend to develop better and more creative solutions than homogenous teams. However, anyone who has been on a diverse team will probably tell you they did a lot of storming before they started performing. Storming is the second stage of Bruce Tuckman's model of group development, characterized by interpersonal conflict, power struggles, and challenges to roles, processes and leadership, as team members assert their
