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Talking about diversity and working across continents and cultures

marina-klein.jpg This past weekend I went back to my old business school in France – INSEAD – for an alumni reunion. It was exciting to see old classmates again, after quite so many years, a jump in the past where old memories were shared with a smile and a touch of nostalgia.

inclusion.jpgIt was also a moment to take some distance and abstract from everyday business to get some perspective and some new fresh ideas. Go back to the famous helicopter view I guess.

One of the lectures I attended was about the new directions where businesses are heading, with the world getting more global, new power economies arising, tecnology reducing distances. And the impact of all this: working cross-continents and cultures, the importance of diversity and virtual teams scattered around the world.

When I was listening, it just flashed my mind that it was like the speaker was talking about Myngle.

Learning from diversity
At Myngle, we all share the same dream and the same belief: that you can learn from each other, and it is possible to bypass the differences to work in harmony towards a common goal.
We believe it is an advantage to be diverse and are trying to live up to that belief by building a very diverse team throughout nationalities, languages, cultures. We are still small, but proud to be operating already within a multicultural environment. Our extended team has many different nationalities, as you most probably know from one of our past postings, and we are proud to have recently added two new Mynglers to support us on a side, Tetyana from Ukraine and Kaoru from Japan. Differences as advantages, and not barriers.

Working across continents and cultures
The core of the team is here, in the Netherlands, but we are operating with other team members scattered around the globe. Our business is bringing together people around the world, we are the living proof that this is possible, as the first steps of Myngle have been guided from different continents. It is all a matter of communication.

Virtual teams
Another interesting point that was made in the lecture is on how teams nowadays need to learn to operate beyond the need for physical proximity, beyond geographical barriers, as technology has made possible to close those distances.
This is what Myngle offers to both students and teachers, but also how we have been operating ourselves, with team members scattered across continents and using the same technology we are developing for our future customers. That is the beauty of technology, allowing new ways of working that only a few years ago would have seemed impossible.

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