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How to Lead Teams When Time Culture Becomes a Performance Issue

I'm managing a diverse team and my employees from different cultures have completely different relationships with deadlines, and I don't know if I should adapt to them or ask them to adapt to company culture.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Management decisions around cultural adaptation versus standardization reveal deeper questions about whose time paradigm gets privileged.

Ideas that help explain it
Worth thinking about

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

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