Chapter 17 — Further Reading

Resources on teamwork, collaboration, credit, and cross-cultural teams.

Reading-level key: ★ accessible · ★★ moderate · ★★★ academic.

On cross-cultural teamwork

  • Erin Meyer, The Culture Map (2014) — "Leading," "Deciding," "Trusting" scales. ★★ Best resource for how teams collaborate, decide, and credit across cultures.
  • HBR articles on "global / multicultural teams." ★★ Practical research on Western+Eastern team dynamics and bridging — directly relevant to mixed teams (and your bridge-asset, Chapter 39).

On individual credit and collaboration

  • Adam Grant, Give and Take (2013). ★★ On "givers, takers, and matchers" — why generous collaboration (with boundaries) wins long-term. Speaks directly to the credit-hog vs. glue-person tension (both case studies).
  • Articles on "claiming credit without being a credit-hog" and "invisible work / office housework." ★ The "glue work" problem (Carmen) is well documented — search "office housework" and "glue work in tech."

On collaborative tools and remote/async work

  • Public company handbooks on "working out loud" and "async communication" (e.g., GitLab's and Basecamp's). ★★ How transparency-first, documentation-heavy teams actually operate — useful if those norms feel exposing.

On team dynamics

  • Patrick Lencioni, The Five Dysfunctions of a Team (2002). ★★ A popular Western model of trust, conflict, and accountability on teams.
  • Google's "Project Aristotle" research on psychological safety. ★ What makes Western teams work (free, widely summarized online).

Free / lighter

  • Tanya Reilly, "Being Glue" (talk/essay, free online). ★ Brilliant on invisible team-supporting work and how to make it count — perfect for Carmen's case.
  • YouTube/HBR on "managing multicultural teams." ★

A reading suggestion

Adam Grant's Give and Take reframes the whole collaboration-vs-credit tension beautifully (generous and visible wins), and Tanya Reilly's "Being Glue" names the invisible-work problem precisely. Read both, then practice "I within we": make one specific contribution visible this week and credit a teammate publicly.