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Subject:RE: Team Building From:"David Chinell" <dchinell -at- email -dot- msn -dot- com> To:"'TECHWR-L'" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com> Date:Wed, 24 Nov 1999 10:22:27 -0500
Listers:
Another slant on this is that certain kinds of
adversity build team spirit. For example, when I
used to smoke, I automatically earned membership
in a tightly-bonded subgroup of any corporation
for which I worked. The bonding was even fiercer
in inclement weather.
A little know fact about BlueSky's marketing and
support strategies: They're DELIBERATE. BS wants
to fuse their users into a tightly-bonded
community by exposing them to controlled
adversity.
