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In Saudi Arabia and other Gulf countries such as Bahrain and the UAE, my experience is that nothing gets done without a lot of introductory talk, discussion, negotiation. And it never stops. I hold to my old joke that signing a final contract in the Middle East just gives you one more thing to negotiate about.
But that implies that nothing can ever get done. Not true. The speed of change in the Gulf countries is unbelievable. Once someone at the top mandates a course of action, islands and cities get built in a couple of years.
A culture of slow decision-making and endless renegotiation doesn't need to slow the speed of change, so long as someone is actually in charge.
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