During last Thursday’s lakeside “bridge the silos” raft build in Austin, Procurement capped us at 12 feet of rope per team and the CFO slid gracefully into the water right before our Q3 OKR debrief. Anyone else try to align team-building with hard business objectives and end up negotiating scope with a duck and a stopwatch?
Treat the “12 feet of rope” as the brief: pre-approve 20 zip ties with @Procurement, require a triangle frame, and do the OKR debrief on land. If you haven’t, teach two knots in 3 minutes — the square and trucker’s hitch — and you’ll halve the dunk rate; quick refresher: https://www.animatedknots.com/.
And how about a quick “materials menu” with unit costs and a 5‑minute auction so teams trade tokens for extra rope pre-approved by @Finance? Small caveat: require a shallow-water float test with a spotter to avoid the CFO swan dive. Keeps the game fun and still inside the guardrails.