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You can, but it looks like everyone else in this thread is lazer focused on Japan (likely due to the prestige of Japanese culture).

But that doesn't explain Switzerland. Is Switzerland closer to Japanese in culture than they are to Dutch? I think obviously not, but from the thread you would assume otherwsie.

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Both countries (Switzerland and Japan) have a culture of a focus on quality, so they are very close in this trait.

The Dutch are IMO very pragmatic people that, while quality is important to them, are more willing to sacrifice it for other things that are of higher priority.

So it's not about a general sharing of culture but only about sharing the quality-focus aspect.

I had a colleague who insisted on quality in every bit of our software and the results were similar perhaps: locally, each thing might take more time and more care, but the global result was everything working better and being done more easily. So perhaps focusing in quality and assuming efficiency will come from global effects is a good strategy?

(Reminds me also of The score takes care of itself business book)

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