Teams…. I love working in teams… it is an unforgettable feeling of empowerment, fueled by amazing synergies and capitalization on each other’s strengths. Our business school is all about teams. Oh, these long weekday nights spent on brainstorming, agenda creation, and milestones tracking. Oh these “sorry guys, I’ll have to miss the meeting today – my dog was hit by a car” little e-mails and these “but not everyone has to be present at the team meeting, right? Don’t worry, I’ll catch up later on” pleasant news, and these “I did send you my part, it’s not my fault that it got lost in your e-mail” discussions with teammates. Even now I am jumping in excitement, anticipating my next team project.
The last point, on documents getting lost in e-mails or mysterious e-mails which never arrive at the point you need them most, I’d say, deserves special attention. How many times was it that working on editing a group paper, we sent versions of the same document to each other more times than there are molecules of angered team lead’s saliva flying out of his mouth when he is shamelessly yelling at his teammates? Maybe, just maybe all this time we needed not capsules of Valeriana officinalis or any other tranquilizing substance, but rather some technological solution, like this one.
-DA
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