My business partner is Norwegian and I'm American and we keep having this conflict where I want to schedule back-to-back meetings and they want long breaks between everything, and we've never directly talked about whether this is cultural or just personality.
More people experience this than they realize.
Two people are trying to build something together while operating from different assumptions about how time should be structured.
“Where Are You with Northern European clock culture?”
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