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CHAPTER 26

Making Global Meetings Work

by June Delano

Running a virtual team is an interesting challenge, especially if people are spread across countries and time zones and have different levels of language proficiency. At one time I had a team of about 17 people spread across 10 countries, and we needed to have a meeting weekly or at least every other week. The challenge was that somebody was always in the meeting in the middle of the night, somebody was always the only person in a room while other people were in small groups.

So we experimented and came up with a model we called “inconvenience everybody equally.” That meant that we rotated our meeting time so that at some point, everyone—whether they were in London, Berlin, New Delhi, or New ...