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Just anecdotally, but every team I've been on where we ate lunch together was amazing, and every team where we didn't was joyless. Eating together of course doe
by Saaster 9y ago
Just anecdotally, but every team I've been on where we ate lunch together was amazing, and every team where we didn't was joyless. Eating together of course doesn't cause amazing teams (but it can help), but seems to happen naturally when the team gels. I also like to invite random people from outside our team to come eat with the group, just grabbing someone in the hallway as we head out ("hey we're going to X, want to join?"), it's great for building connections in the org.
- pklausler 9y agoI think that you're just reversing the arrow of causality.
- convolvatron 9y agoor even that there isn't really an arrow. i think .. all of the places which essentially had a near-mandatory eat together culture spent an awfully large amount of time organizing and executing lunch and very little time doing anything else. we got to know each other, but it didn't mean we worked* together