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My “strange” colleagues

Dear Network,
A friend of mine once said: “I have many colleagues. And they are so strange”. My reaction was: “They are not strange. They are different”. And maybe, just maybe these differences come from the people’s cultural backgrounds when they bring their peculiarities to the table.
The obvious thing that unites people at work is a common work activity, be it a project, assignment, function, or operation. Let’s have a look at different approaches to completing tasks.
For example, you have a colleague with an Indian background.
This colleague would:
a) value such things as relationships and trust already at the beginning of any project. The team will be more productive if its members have a “feel” towards each other. This “feel” comes from personal contacts including meetings outside work when people discuss personal problems;
b) seek consensus with the other team members, disagreements (especially open) may lead to conflicts that should be avoided;
c) value face-to-face communication rather than emailing, chatting or texting;
d) prefer the top-down approach expecting direct instructions from the boss, be it team lead or project manager, on how to do this or that task;
e) always be ready to use the “Jugaad” method which may be termed as some kind of mindset in the Indian environment. Simply speaking it means ‘do something out of nothing’, ‘think of a life hack’. Be resourceful and creative!
f) probably be time flexible because the Indian concept of time is different from the Western approach. Time can be stretched and even molded.
More “strange” colleagues will be described in my next post.
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