When in your culture do people take a systematic or a particularistic approach to a situation? In other words, when does your culture prefer to build a system or keep it simple by breaking a situation down into its component parts (particulars)?
Decision Making
Time
Name one example from your culture where external factors should not get in the way of the process of making a decision. Then name an example where the opposite is true: where the process of making a decision should not get in the way of the decision itself.
Resources
Name an example from your respective culture when a decision should be made conservatively (protecting resources) and when a decision should be made aggressively (taking advantage of an opportuntiy)?
Analysis
In your culture, how do people know what is too much or too little analysis? What criteria to they use?
Risk
How does your culture define risk? Describe a decision you made where you underestimated the risk and got burned.