Our startup team has three Korean co-founders and two American ones and we can never get direct feedback in meetings because nobody wants to make anyone lose face, but then all the real decisions happen in side conversations afterward and it's creating this exhausting double-layer of communication that's slowing everything down.
More people experience this than they realize.
The group is caught between honoring face-saving practices and the urgent need for transparent decision-making.
“Where Are You with East Asian time and face-saving?”
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