Crunch time

[aquaplanage]

It's that time again: crazy deadlines ahoy

Comments

[stephbg]

I am astounded whenever I hear of any organisation of more than 4 people that isn't dysfunctional. People are messy creatures.

[aquaplanage]

I guess so. But zero to dysfunctionality (as in almost crying frustration) in 22 minutes?

[stephbg]

It's impressive, but if the purpose of the exercise was to break them then that's plenty of time. Was it designed for failure?

[aquaplanage]

The exercise apparently (nearly) always results in the same sorts of results.

But if you know what the exercise is, kinda like Fight Club, it *so* doesn't have to fail, or break people.

It's all about something oddly like group-think but worse - just like many relationships recapitulate bad relationships of the past, the system of failure is not on the 3 A4s, but in the heads of *all* the participants. And even if one or two get it, they can't subvert all the unthinking desire of all the rest to create a really fucked up situation.

There is no intervention from convenors or coordinators. The participants self-organise to fail.

[redbraids]

turned into a caricature of every dysfunctional organisation I've ever experienced in two very quick hours

Indeed :-) I often wonder how they comeup with that list of good places to work that you see sometimes :-)

Looking forward to seeing you when you are here! Safe travels!

[aquaplanage]

You don't know how much I'm looking forward to seeing you and Mikey!