I work for a Japanese company where we spend the first 30 minutes of every meeting on relationship maintenance, and I appreciate the intention but I keep thinking about my American clients who expect instant results.
More people experience this than they realize.
Serving multiple cultural time paradigms simultaneously creates internal fragmentation between competing values systems.
“Where Are You with Monochronic vs. polychronic cultures?”
If this sounds familiar, the Library can help you find the bigger picture.