Looking back at this week’s posts, I should mention that I have no regrets. It was a time and a place. Plus, I like a steep learning curve and this was at a point in my career when I was particularly keen on strengthening my skills and expanding my network, so this was all very interesting to me and great frontline experience to help me better collaborate with a lot of my fellow entrepreneur clients today.
I also think a lot of our team felt the same way. We were all relatively young, motivated for all the reasons stated in my last post. We were also a very cohesive group — I suppose partly due to the fireworks going off all around us. We enjoyed each other’s company, and usually did not mind working long and late hours. So the social interaction did support job satisfaction. That level of cohesiveness is what many companies are striving to achieve under the umbrella of employer brands and internal branding. But it’s certainly a steeper and slipperier slope today when the external lift of a veritable Gold Rush isn’t fueling the engine.
Posted by: Colin Mangham