DE Data versus Relationships

What is your opinion regarding the observation that North American business professionals value data and content over relationships with people?

Philipp Burgtorf (Munich, Germany) "In my experience, Americans are very often people-oriented, and not number-oriented..."

Maximilian Dressendörfer (Berlin, Germany) "In general I cannot confirm that Americans prefer business matters, meaning numbers, data, facts over relations..."

Markus Kässbohrer (Bonn, Germany) "This question is about people vs. numbers. In general, I have noticed indeed that this is the case..."

Christina Hafke (Hamburg, Germany) "In general, I believe that numbers and contents are very, very important for American business people..."

Tim Fischbach (Frankfurt, Germany) "Yes, one might think that American companies and American business people are highly data-oriented..."

Erik Boos (Mannheim, Germany) "Numbers vs. relationship – one can clearly say that numbers are the focus. That is quite understandable..."

Authors: renato-montes.