Community is a lot harder to foster than productivity. It’s also a lot more important, in the long run. Community is hard to build and easy to destroy. It requires patience, emotional intelligence, a willingness to trust, a willingness to be vulnerable, and a sense of humor.
Detour: Team vs Community
In the context of business we often borrow a sports metaphor and call the people we work with our “team”. Most of us are so used to it we don’t even notice its connection to sports anymore.
