Weekend Read--Decisions, Process and Expectations
As one delves deeper into Korea facing work what stands out is the “innerconnectiveness” of the workplace. This relationship impacts day to day business interactions such as decisions, timelines, and process. To share some background, Author Richard Nisbett describes the concept well in The Geography of Thought : To the Westerner, it makes sense to speak of a person as having attributes that are independent of circumstances or particular personal relations. This self— this bounded, impermeable free agent—can move from group to group and setting to setting without significant alteration. But for the Easterner (and for many other peoples to one degree or another), the person is connected, fluid, and conditional... The person participates in a set of relationships that make it possible to act and purely independent behavior is usually not possible or really even desirable. Since all action i...