| > A former marketing employee at Nvidia told Bloomberg News that she would often attend up to 10 meetings per day — each of them involving more than 30 people. > The meetings would be characterized by shouting and fighting, but employees put up with it because of the “golden handcuffs,” according to the ex-staffer. Hopefully, the shouting and fighting was at least motivated by drive for the company to succeed. There are dysfunctional places where people don't care. There are dysfunctional places where people battle for individual advancement. There are dysfunctional places where see their job as only doing what they're told, and, culturally, anything else (e.g., questioning, taking initiative) as improper. But if you have a place where everyone is focused on the company succeeding, and the 'only' apparent barrier is that they're not collaborating very well (e.g., not communicating or managing information well, or a brawler is steamrolling over better ideas), that might be a relatively easy dysfunction to improve. You could start by observing a single concrete meeting that's unproductive and/or fighting, figure out the effects and why, and go from there. |