International IT Teams – Part 2: Trust, Feedback, Hierarchy, and Time

In part two of this double episode on international IT teams, Daniel and Nova explore the cultural mechanisms that are often less visible in day-to-day work, but have a massive impact on collaboration: trust, feedback, leadership, and the way different cultures understand time.

After part one focused on communication, decisions, disagreement, and persuasion, this episode turns to the “slower layers” of international collaboration: How is trust built? Why is a contract sometimes not enough? Why can feedback be understood so differently across cultures? What role does hierarchy play in everyday leadership? And why does punctuality not always send the same signal everywhere?

Topics in this episode:

- Trusting: task-based vs. relationshi ...