How does the pace and structure of business differ among cultures?

How does the pace and structure of business differ among cultures?

Norine Dresser (Writer) gives expert video advice on: How do Asian and American concepts of punctuality differ? and more...

The main thing that I would address here is decision making and in many situations here the boss makes the decision and that's it. But let's say Japan, I know I've encountered people doing business in Japan and they're so frustrated because the boss does not make the decision himself. There's a whole hierarchy and he has to get more of a consensus so you won't get a fast answer and the boss will not take total credit for it so... Again it's back to basics in terms of American let's get to it, let's make a decision, I need it now, and it's not that way in other places.