{"id":444,"date":"2012-04-12T13:05:36","date_gmt":"2012-04-12T13:05:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.binfire.com\/?p=444"},"modified":"2012-04-12T13:05:36","modified_gmt":"2012-04-12T13:05:36","slug":"leveling-the-playing-field-on-cross-cultural-teams","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.binfire.com\/blog\/leveling-the-playing-field-on-cross-cultural-teams\/","title":{"rendered":"Cross-Cultural Teams"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Cross-cultural teams are ubiquitous in today&#8217;s business environment, and a lot has been written about them. What is often lost in the discussion of multicultural teams, however, is the experience of individuals \u2014 especially individuals from East Asian cultures \u2014 who are at a disadvantage on teams with Western cultural norms and English as a lingua franca. 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