Italians plan with a built-in awareness that the future is unpredictable and that plans will encounter surprises. This is not fatalism — Italians plan energetically and care about outcomes. But they do not invest emotional energy in the expectation that everything will go exactly as planned.
When things change, it is not experienced as a crisis or a failure of planning — it is experienced as a normal part of execution. This psychological resilience means that Italian teams can absorb unexpected changes without the paralysis or frustration that can occur when a culture expects plans to unfold precisely. If you are working with Italian colleagues and a plan needs to change, approach the change as a natural development, not as a problem to be blamed on someone.
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