Forget About Team Building!
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- 1. (EXERCISES, ACTIVITIES, CHALLENGES, GAMES, RETREATS, ETC.)
- 2. If you’re open-minded, please give us a few minutes to offer you a life-changing alternative. Otherwise, break a leg! We pray that your colleagues will not get bored … or hurt.
- 4. Team building is said to: Increase productivity
- 5. Team building is said to: Increase productivity Minimize conflict
- 6. Team building is said to: Increase productivity Minimize conflict Improve communication
- 7. Team building is said to: Increase productivity Minimize conflict Improve communication Boost morale
- 8. Team building is said to: Increase productivity Minimize conflict Improve communication Boost morale Improve teamwork
- 10. Many, if not most, people hate team building exercises!
- 11. Here are some of the countless remarks that we found online:
- 34. Even if we all liked team building exercises, and all team building exercises were effective…
- 36. Though your colleagues are physically united by your organization, they are mentally divided by things that those who sell team building exercises fail to address.
- 37. Things whose effect is more detrimental to the success of your organization than whatever problems that team building is said to solve!
- 41. Without language, a “team” is merely a group of people who just happen to be near each other.
- 43. Language is by far the most important tool to any group of people who are working together in pursuit of a common goal.
- 45. Yet, most people are ignorant of language’s shortcomings.
- 46. Because of that, a word or statement sometimes means different things to different people.
- 50. Believe it or not, your colleagues’ ignorance of language’s shortcomings might or might have cost your organization some of its customers, both current or then-current and prospective or then-prospective customers.
- 52. Nationality has divided your team into “Nigerians,” “Indians,” “Americans,” etc.
- 53. © Brett Neilson, Flickr.com
- 54. Inevitably, that has led to the “us-and-them” mentality amongst your colleagues, people who are supposedly united!
- 56. The monetary system has divided your team into: “the rich,” “the middle class,” “the poor,” et cetera.
- 57. We might have never heard of your organization… … but chances are that not everybody is paid equally. © Barta IV, Flickr.com
- 58. Because of that, some of your colleagues are not in the same social class, even though they work for the very same organization.
- 59. Inevitably, that has led to the “us-and-them” mentality amongst your colleagues, people who are supposedly united!
- 60. © Fibonacci Blue, Flickr.com
- 61. What’s more, most of your colleagues secretly see some of your colleagues as competitors! (For a position, via promotion, which they seek primarily for its monetary rewards.)
- 62. © U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Europe District, Flickr.com
- 63. Inevitably, that has led to the “me-vs-them” mentality amongst your colleagues, people who are supposedly united!
- 65. Religion has divided your team into “believers” and “nonbelievers.”
- 66. © Jennifer Boyer, Flickr.com
- 67. “Believers” were then divided into “Christians,” “Muslims,” “Jews,” etc.
- 68. © Ben Sutherland, Flickr.com
- 69. “Christians” were then divided into “Jehovah’s Witnesses,” “Lutherans,” “Anglicans,” “Roman Catholics,” etc.
- 71. Inevitably, that has led to the “us-and-them” mentality amongst your colleagues, people who are supposedly united!
- 73. As we all know, our culture has greatly shaped how we see the world.
- 74. © Michael Pollak, Flickr.com
- 75. Culture is so powerful that it usually dictates what one feels or sees when one looks at someone or something.
- 76. — The Okay Sign — Show it to your colleagues, and those who are from, say, America, will interpret it as, “That’s great” or “Everything is good.” However, your colleagues from, say, (some regions of) Germany, will each interpret it as, “Asshole!” or “You’re an asshole!”
- 77. Because of nothing but cultural conditioning:
- 78. © Starmanseries, Flickr.com To most Americans, a dog is a potential mate.
- 79. © Miran Rijavec, Flickr.com To some Chinese, a dog is potential meat.
- 80. Your colleagues cannot sincerely tolerate each other … unless they are acquainted with how one’s culture shapes one’s worldview, beliefs, behaviour, taste, etc.
- 81. © U.S. Department of Agriculture, Flickr.com
- 83. Yet, you have decided to spend, or are considering spending, your organization’s hard-earned money on team building … as if whatever problems that team building is said to solve are the most serious threat to the success of your organization!
- 91. © Francesco Crippa, Flickr.com We’re fully aware that reading a book isn’t as entertaining as playing paintball, driving a go-kart, riding a quad bike, etc.
- 92. © Francesco Crippa, Flickr.com That said, the problem that this book is an antidote to requires something that will leave your colleagues enlightened, not entertained.
- 93. Email us the number of copies you’d like to invest in and your physical address (incl. name of country), and we will reply you with a quote that includes shipping cost: INVEST IN THE UNITY OF YOUR TEAM WE SHIP ALL OVER THE WORLD A MINIMUM OF 25 COPIES PER ORDER (PAPERBACK, 313 PAGES) EXAMPLE (number of books) (organization name) (physical address) (physical address) (name of country) 38,540 copies Google Inc. 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway Mountain View, CA 94043 United States EACH