> <i>A former marketing employee at Nvidia told Bloomberg News that she would often attend up to 10 meetings per day — each of them involving more than 30 people.</i><p>> <i>The meetings would be characterized by shouting and fighting, but employees put up with it because of the “golden handcuffs,” according to the ex-staffer.</i><p>Hopefully, the shouting and fighting was at least motivated by drive for the company to succeed.<p>There are dysfunctional places where people don't care.<p>There are dysfunctional places where people battle for <i>individual</i> advancement.<p>There are dysfunctional places where see their job as only doing what they're told, and, culturally, anything else (e.g., questioning, taking initiative) as improper.<p>But if you have a place where everyone is focused on the company succeeding, and the 'only' apparent barrier is that they're not collaborating very well (e.g., not communicating or managing information well, or a brawler is steamrolling over better ideas), that might be a relatively easy dysfunction to improve. You could start by observing a single concrete meeting that's unproductive and/or fighting, figure out the effects and why, and go from there.