[paulcole]

My favorite test of a workplace is to see how closely coworkers map to characters in the film Jurassic Park.

The more obvious each casting choice is, the more dysfunctional the workplace.

[sdoering]

I never heard this analogy. Mind to explain it further? What to look for, why these characters in this movie?

I would love to dive deeper into the analogy.

[paulcole]

It won't make any sense if you haven't watched the film.

Basically you're looking for charismatic/deeply delusional founder, money-grubbing lawyer, smartest-person-in-the-room theoretical person, old-fashioned person who complains about the new way of doing things (but who might be right), scientist who cares only about results and who has no ethics, annoying kids.

It's more a joke that I've seen play out in real life than a truely common method for analyzing dysfunction.

[etblg]

And they were so preoccupied with whether or not they could, they didn't stop to think if they should?

[notpachet]

Are we talking about the dinosaurs themselves?

[paulcole]

If those match up with the clients, RUN!