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Data versus Relationships

Chinese

Pete Chong (Taipei, Taiwan) "In business and in politics, no friendship is eternal... "

Xin Qi (Shanghai, China) "Chinese people, since ancient times, have placed..."

Ya Liu (Shanghai, China) "People say that Americans, how can I put it..."

Jie Li (Shanghai, China) "Americans run their capitalistic..."

German

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..."

Russian

Elena D. (Saratov, Russia) "My attitude to the statement that North American businessmen value data and content more than..."

Vladimir M. (Saratov, Russia) "What do North Americans value more, the objective state of affairs or personal, maybe even informal..."

Japanese

Mimi (Tokyo, Japan) "In America, professional transactions are usually based..."

Tsutomu (Tokyo, Japan) "Then tsutomu says..." (Note: no transcription available.)

Michiko (Yamanashi-ken, Hokuto-shi) "Then michiko says..."

Hikaru(Tokyo, Japan) "And then hikaru says..." (Note: no transcription available.)


Authors: LouisPM, orkelm.