If you’re the kind of person who tends to “say what they mean and mean what they say,” what do you do when you work with someone who is not as direct? For many Westerners, the question of how to effectively communicate with cultures that communicate indirectly is a vexing one. Culture indoctrinates us to think that your way of doing things is the “right” way to do things, and that applies to cultures that approach communication more directly.