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Scenario

How to Navigate Competing Cultural Time Expectations in Global Business

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.

What we've seen

Serving multiple cultural time paradigms simultaneously creates internal fragmentation between competing values systems.

Your guide for this
Laozi
Laozi works with people navigating exactly this kind of situation.
Ideas that help explain it
Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with Monochronic vs. polychronic cultures?”

Peri

Peri can explain why this happens, help you decide if this is the right situation for you, and point toward the right journey or coach.

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