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Title: How Slack’s GPT is Set to Revolutionize Remote Meetings
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This chapter of #GlobalTeams talks about colloquialisms and how even British vs Americans can misunderstand each other.

I remember a British expat in California friend of mine was complaining about the "bin lorry". I had absolutely no idea what he was talking about. In the US, it is called a "garbage truck".

Similarly, a customer of mine in the UK said something along the lines of "we all had a hard paper round". Again, I had no clue. He meant delivering newspapers was difficult as a kid.

Or a classmate from Nepal asked me, confused, why when he told a Minnesotan "thank you", the Minnesotan replied "you bet". (Which means the Minnesotan will help any time again as it was not a difficult request.)

My masters program was 90% international students (cheap and accredited), and once I mentioned to a team member that I was a "save n*zi". The complete shock on their face cured me of ever using that phrase again. I meant that I saved my work often, and possibly excessively.

Yay language!

A feel like a lot of common business advice is to have social team-building exercises, as much as they are made fun of by the general public. But getting to know each other, other than just through work assignments, is critical to build trust, as stated by this #GlobalTeams book.

But what if my team is made up of a bunch of introverts and not a bunch of extrovert sales guys?

In my experience, whenever leadership came to town, there would be a big team dinner with everyone from the office. That happened the first time I visited my team in Canada, too, as I was with my boss, also.

But when just I went up in December, I had a planned agenda, with expanded lunch breaks, space to be sociable, and ending at 4 or 4:30pm. And no team dinner. It worked for me personally, as being extroverted and leading discussions all day is tiring. I *think* my introverted team with family obligations and lives outside of work were OK with it.

But now I'm second-guessing myself. :/

I gotta plan a trip in April...

"The value of the global leader ... is in creating the conditions for success."

I know I talked about that a lot last year. Did we set someone up for success? Did we give them an environment in which they could succeed?

#GlobalTeams

OK, maybe this is my #GlobalTeams thread as I read it.

"... If I'm asked whether I want to hire engineers from a pool of 16,000 or a pool of more than a million, the answer is self-evident.

This puts particular pressure on people from higher cost countries: they have to prove that they are worth the premium salary they extract."

Oof, if that isn't the truth...

He doesn't pull any punches either, regarding "home nation bias" companies with "global reach" but not a "global mindset": "Bottom of the pyramid jobs (dirty, dull, dangerous and demeaning) go to nationals of select Asian countries."