Angola Culture Tips
+ If you were to think about the most important cultural attributes that you will see operating in business in Angola, they would be:
- Hierarchical structures
- Formal style
- Interpersonal relationships
- Indirect communication
+ Angolans believe that there is always time to develop social relationships. Since personal relationships are important, people who attempt to adhere to inflexible time schedules have little success.
+ As indirect communicators, Angolans often use proverbs to provide a shared context and share their innermost thoughts and feelings. Here are a few, indicative of traditional Angolan values:
- The real journey of discovery begins in old age.
- The one who throws the stone forgets; the one who is hit remembers forever.
- One spoon of soup in need has more value than a pot of soup when we have an abundance of food.
+ Like most Africans, Angolans view time as something that adjusts to changing needs and circumstances. They believe that people should always have time for what really matters in life — family and friends.
- from RW3′s CultureWizard™ Country Profiles
