Auteur - Stephane Baillie Gee

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Culture starved
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Doing the work in a complex world
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Stop managing time, it’s been managing you anyway

Culture starved

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Forget about the cultural codes

The main message is simple. Forget about the codes, there are very few codes you really need to learn. This is not Japan and you do not need to be familiar with the angle of bending when saluting. Even in Japan, they know you are not Japanese.

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Stop managing time, it’s been managing you anyway

Time is critical in modern organizations. We have so little of it that, like any other precious commodity, we are urged to manage it effectively. Still, when people started noticing time shortage, they looked for ways to use it more sensibly. Put this in the ambiance of the last century when it all happened, you get time management. We could go back to the Greeks, but I will spare you.

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