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toughguys··on What Google Learned from Its Quest to Build the Perfect Team
Of course, there are some other, unspoken prerequisites to this sort of perfect harmony of flower children prancing through the meadow.

  - pre-selection of qualified individuals
  - dictatorial authority precluding much superfluous decision making
  - martial and capital punishment casting a long shadow
  - high stakes besides all of this
  - weeding out according to fitness long before harmony is reached, where the weak are pruned mercilessly
What about:

  - shitty HR negotiations
  - lies during interviews, that can neither be proven nor disproved
  - grooming habits
  - sexual tension
  - and the rest of all of our human foibles