Language and Communication
Writing a joint proposal: reviewers can tell when one side wrote it alone
A proposal drafted by one partner and circulated for approval reads exactly like what it is.
Language and Communication
Working across languages without losing meaning, and reading what silence means.
Language and Communication
Language and Communication
Giving feedback: direct criticism in front of others reads very differently in different rooms
Feedback that is normal in one setting can be genuinely damaging in another, and the damage is invisible to the person giving it.
Language and Communication
Remote meetings across six time zones: alternate who takes the inconvenient hour
Whoever consistently takes the late-night slot is being told something about their standing in the project.
Language and Communication
Editing a colleague's English: fix the sentences, do not rewrite the thinking
There is a line between improving expression and replacing someone's argument with your own, and it is easy to cross without noticing.
Language and Communication
Working across languages: fluent English does not mean the same meanings arrived
The hardest communication failures happen between people who both speak good English and assume they understood each other.
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