CMNS 110 Lecture 3: summary of m time p time.pdf
14 Apr 2015
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Complex societies organize time in at least two different ways: event scheduled as separate items - one thing at a time - as in north europe, or following the mediterranean model of involvement in several things at once. Each has its strengths as well as its weaknesses. P-time stresses involvement of people and completion of transactions rather than adherence to preset schedules. Appointments are not taken as seriously and, as a consequence, are frequently broken. For p-time people, time is seldom experienced as wasted, and is apt to be considered a point rather than a ribbon or a road, but that point is often sacred. Though m-time cultures tend to make a fetish out of management, there are points at which m- time doesn"t make as much sense as it might. Life in general is at times unpredictable; and who can tell exactly how long a particular client, patient, or set of transactions will take.
