> My current hypothesis is that the team is all that matters.
That's me 6 years ago. After having invested too much on the type of work/mission and found that this was not it.
From the past 6 years and 2 companies where I tried this hypothesis, I can say that the work _structure_ (chaos, or hyper-bureaucratic, or anywhere in between, going either way) and the work _mission_ do matter a lot too in the end. It's an intricate balance.
The work _structure_ mandates how your team will jell, or dismantle, over time and tasks. The thousands of paper cuts due to the transformations from start to scale to profitable and compliant can really turn mad the unprepared.
The work _mission_ mandates how much/long you will endure the paper cuts.
But yes, the team and the people is still what you should invest on: that's the only area where your loyalty matters, if only because that's only there that you can find reciprocity.
The company, the structure, the mission are just some paper fiction that pay and pass; and there's thousands of them.
Moreover, these days, most of the missions (in IT at least) are even more ludicrous compared to the existential challenge that's ahead of us.
So yes, we better relax, enjoy the people around us in the settings we have, be nice and do what's sensible to do.
That's me 6 years ago. After having invested too much on the type of work/mission and found that this was not it.
From the past 6 years and 2 companies where I tried this hypothesis, I can say that the work _structure_ (chaos, or hyper-bureaucratic, or anywhere in between, going either way) and the work _mission_ do matter a lot too in the end. It's an intricate balance.
The work _structure_ mandates how your team will jell, or dismantle, over time and tasks. The thousands of paper cuts due to the transformations from start to scale to profitable and compliant can really turn mad the unprepared.
The work _mission_ mandates how much/long you will endure the paper cuts.
But yes, the team and the people is still what you should invest on: that's the only area where your loyalty matters, if only because that's only there that you can find reciprocity.
The company, the structure, the mission are just some paper fiction that pay and pass; and there's thousands of them.
Moreover, these days, most of the missions (in IT at least) are even more ludicrous compared to the existential challenge that's ahead of us.
So yes, we better relax, enjoy the people around us in the settings we have, be nice and do what's sensible to do.