The so-called team building, that is, team building. There are many ways to do it. The common way is to lead the team to dinner and communicate the relationship between the team members.
But team building is not just for eating, but to use this form to promote harmony within the team.
Chapter 6, "How to Create Wealth" and Chapter 7, "Focusing on the Divide Between Wealth and the Poor" of "Hackers and Painters" discussed a question, that is, whether wealth comes from the competition for limited resources or from the exploration of the unknown outside world. The R&D team is a team that creates new things, not a zero-sum game. So a detail in team building can be optimized.
The normal way of eating is to sit at a table in a group, serve it, and eat it. However, this environment creates competition for limited resources, which is actually detrimental to team building. But change the form. If you take the team to a buffet, the food everyone eats comes from a restaurant outside the team, and everyone can use their abilities to choose the food they need. This will not lead to competition within the team, and it will be more beneficial to team building.
Although in the content of team building, it is inevitable to give a certain opportunity to someone instead of giving everyone an equal opportunity to develop, but for opportunities that can be controlled, such as eating, try to control the atmosphere of the team as much as possible Bundle.
Most of the buffets are not very tasty, but that's not the point. Everyone gets together to eat and drink, and a harmonious relationship is the goal. During my 2 years at Nutshell, the team has a team building once a month, and almost always eat buffet, and almost always eat the Brazilian barbecue that is not very delicious. Before each start, there is often a prayer:
Thank you Thirteen for giving us food.