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by jamesblonde
1524 days ago
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The author is Irish, and as an anglo-saxon who has lived in Sweden for the last 17 years, I can relate. We get more systems engineers in the Anglo-saxon world because in part because our education at university tends to be more generalist and also in part because of our more hierarchical organization does not involve everybody in decision making, so people at the bottom let their "mother hen" boss take more responsibility. In strong engineering cultures like Sweden and Germany, we tend to have more specialization and consensus building. There will always be systems engineers, but they are more prevalent in some cultures (anglo-saxon). |
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I'm not sure if I understood it correctly or there was a typo, I am surprised because my experience is almost opposite.
my experience with Swedish and German multinationals is that it's all about consensus, to a point where the best decisions would be rejected if it lacks support, or where the off-ramp would be no decision (which is also a decision). this I found in stark contrast to French, Italian, Spanish, UK/US/Australian organizations, that tend to value the ego driven hero who saves the day. Also these former locations seem to do better when dealing with chaos as they know how to "think on their feed".
I'm curious from your experience would these companies be start-ups or medium sized firms, or could there be other reasons I'm missing that our experience is so different?