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How to navigate cultural time differences in diverse startup teams

Our startup team is falling apart because half of us are from cultures that plan in cycles and seasons and want to build sustainable rhythms while the other half are pushing for aggressive quarterly targets and linear growth metrics and every meeting feels like we're speaking different languages about success.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Linear productivity culture is colliding with cyclical wisdom traditions in ways that fragment shared purpose.

Ideas that help explain it
Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with Linear vs. cyclical time — cultural differences?”

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