📺 Watch this episode on YouTube Dima and Slava have read "The Culture Map" by Erin Meyer and discuss what they think of and how they to dimensions of communication offered by the book. You can now also subscribe to Biweeklycast on Spotify. "The Culture Map" by Erin Meyer Dima's distinction between "complimentary" and "contradictory" book Book builds on experience rather that compiles scientific research. This, probably, makes it more honest One sentence summary: idea of cultural dimensions is useful and, as often, everything is relative Negative feedback, as narrower aspect of communication, makes a lot sense as a dimension that is important in professional collaboration Paradox of US communication culture: low-context communication, but indirect negative feedback Pay attention to upgraders and downgraders when giving and receiving feedback Does persuasion dimension has more to it than principles-first vs applications-first? Leadership dimension builds on research on power distance by Geert Hofstede Looks like, both Slava and Dima use both decisioning styles: consensual and top-down Decisions with capital D and with lower D Continued interaction over time can allow task-based trust grow into relationship-based trust and vice versa How to build relationship trust? Does confrontational disagreement come from inexperience in other methods of debating and arguing? Flexibility with scheduling seems to be heavily dependent on context Is our constant connectivity of modern world makes people feel like they can be more flexible with time?