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The thing you have to be careful about is artificially creating this kind of bonding. If a company gives you opportunity to bond with your colleagues, that's a
by j_baker 14y ago
The thing you have to be careful about is artificially creating this kind of bonding. If a company gives you opportunity to bond with your colleagues, that's a great thing. However, some people feel as though a team just isn't a team unless they're eating lunch every day together and everybody loves everyone's company enough to do so.
- rhizome 14y agoIn my experience, it's usually a cargo-culted management technique. One thing to keep in mind is that with all the startups of the last whatever-years, there is a shortage of experienced management, so someone who has gone from Developer at one company to Director of Engineering at another has only these stories to cull company strategy. Furthermore, Forbes.com is the perfect venue for extroverts to circle the wagons.