It's important to have a good culture fit. This was one reason why, post-Brexit, I went to Germany rather than the US: I prefer unvarnished truth if I can get it, and failing that people telling me what I did wrong instead of puffing up my ego by telling me everything is amazing when they think it's rubbish*.
But accounting for that, too, is part of persuasion — even if it's not on this list.
* there's a set of graphs I can't find, objective quality on the x-axis, bell curves, vertical lines drawn in different places for each country, US labelling everything that's better than terrible as "amazing" and vice-versa for eastern Europe.
But accounting for that, too, is part of persuasion — even if it's not on this list.
* there's a set of graphs I can't find, objective quality on the x-axis, bell curves, vertical lines drawn in different places for each country, US labelling everything that's better than terrible as "amazing" and vice-versa for eastern Europe.