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Sandor Dargo

Sorry for the late reply, I'm traveling with my family and have little time.

Thanks for your comment. I'm glad for you if you ever found such a place.

I have mostly worked for big corporations and goals are not that much shared among people.

I could start from a theoretical point of view saying that owners, the board, the management, the employees have all different goals.

But I think it's more personal. I joined a team in the past where I already knew someone. A couple of days after I joined, he gave some briefing. "Look, A is already on the move looking for something else, B wants to become staff so he will work hard, C just wants to work as little as possible without getting noticed, D is waiting for his permanent visa then will probably move." Of course, management set us a common goal. Everyone nodded.

This is just one team, but none of my other experience gives me a more idealistic view on common goals.

After all, most people will go towards the smallest resistance in order to get paid and go home to friends/family/etc. at the end of the day.

And I guess it's fine. If you want better teams, you need better staffing(?) and/or automating more steps in your pipeline to make people deliver quality work. And you need to show example, because Virtue always has neighbors.