Category Archives: X-Culture Stories

Out of emails

An unexpected challenge: X-Culture ran out of email addresses. Who would have thought… X-Culture’s web hosting allows us to have up to 100 email accounts at name@X-Culture.org. When we bought the hosting years ago, we needed only one email address: Admin@X-Culture.org. We didn’t even pay attention to the 100 limit. Who cares? How many email…

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Free-riding

One recurring issue most teams (not only in X-Culture) face is free-riding (aka free-loading, social loafing, shirking). Almost every team has one or more team members who do not meet the expectations of their team members.   The problem is especially acute in global virtual teams (GVTs). Here is why: