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AI is Reshaping Work. So are Global Teams. HR is Struggling with Both.

AI is transforming how organizations work, but a quieter challenge has been building for decades. Global teams, the cross-border, multicultural groups that do the real coordination work of international organizations, are still waiting for HR to catch up. In an era preoccupied with what technology can do, the more pressing question may be what people, spread across borders and cultures, are actually capable of together. Continue reading AI is Reshaping Work. So are Global Teams. HR is Struggling with Both.

Understanding Openness to Change among Lithuanian Generations

VALUEHOST is a three-year research project funded by the Lithuanian Research Council. We explore changing Lithuanian values, with a focus on emigrants and their experiences in their host countries. In this post, I introduce some interesting findings from one of our studies on changing values at home. We have analyzed data between the years 2010-2020, from the European Social Survey database on individuals’ values. In … Continue reading Understanding Openness to Change among Lithuanian Generations

Making a difference through global leadership

I am pleased to be a part of a recently published book, the Research Handbook of Global Leadership: Making a Difference (Lena Zander, Ed.).  The book’s publication is timely, as leadership in these uncertain times becomes ever more important. Many international organizations are and will be facing numerous challenges and will need to develop  new strategies, skills and ways to overcome them. More than ever … Continue reading Making a difference through global leadership

TAP YOUR VIRTUAL TEAM’S POTENTIAL.

More and more organizations are tapping into the benefits of virtual teams to achieve cost efficiencies, greater flexibility and faster turnaround times for complex projects. Managing an international virtual team has numerous challenges associated with physical, temporal and cultural distance, yet, in many industries, global virtual teams are fast becoming organizations’ raison d’etre, a new form of organizing work that helps both large and small … Continue reading TAP YOUR VIRTUAL TEAM’S POTENTIAL.