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How business partners from different cultures can align their work styles

My business partner grew up in a culture where 'busy' equals 'important' and I come from a tradition that values contemplation and space, and we're both successful individually but when we try to work together we end up in this weird dance of competing productivity philosophies.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Two effective but incompatible approaches to productivity are creating partnership friction.

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“Where Are You with Productivity philosophy across cultures?”

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