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.

I've worked with plenty of American devs who are great, just get on with things. Maybe this entitlement happens at the big tech companies?

The article talks about persuasion across the board not getting developed to do their jobs.

No country is immune from that either. Get a large enough group of people and politics is the default.

The article is about persuading your peers and your management to get what you need, not about persuading your direct reports to do their tasks.