Lecture 8

Question 1

What is contextual intelligence?

Answer 1

The ability to adapt and apply what has been learned, in different situations

Question 2

How does Rocket Internet build the right top management team?

Answer 2

They hire recent MBA graduates from top schools who want to return to their home countries to start a business

Question 3

What is the cause of no uniformity for employees across the organizations?

Answer 3

Could be the following:
- Different pay rate
- Different length of the workweek

Question 4

On what do young global companies often thrive? And to what difficulty could this lead?

Answer 4

Members’ cultural cohesion and drive it can be hard to maintain as the business expands across countries

Question 5

What is the danger of globally distributed teams that are expected to collaborate on a joint product?

Answer 5

The danger of an ‘us versus them’ mentality

Question 6

Why could a technical co-founder not be necessary?

Answer 6

Because a prototype’s most important features will be its design and the user experience, so it’s more important to have an expert designer than an expert programmer