num_pages: 107
description: Selena Stark is a programmer for a Software as a Service provider. Her company is experiencing severe team morale issues and the owner decides to implement a last-ditch effort to resolve the issues. This guilty pleasure read is a novella of 20000 words. There is a followup novel called More Team Building due in August 2019. Robin has this to say: I grew up on Gilligans Island episodes and later (for the purposes of this little note) Charlies Angels (the original series with Kate Jackson Jaclyn Smith and Farrah Fawcett). I havent watched the reboot of the latter. There was an episode of Gilligans Island in which the castaways are discovered by a group of people who have some interesting technology; they have rings that control the wearer into doing whatever theyre told. I was old enough to realize how silly an idea that was but the basic idea still stuck with me. Later there was a Charlies Angels episode in which the subject of their investigation used hypnosis to commit murder. One of the angels is snared but of course it all works out in the end. The concept of being able to control the minds of others is a recurring trope throughout fiction with the methods coming in a wide wide range of ways. Vampires magic flowers hypnosis a variety of parasites magic drugs technology: the methods are myriad. Because of all this I grew up fascinated by the supposed promises of hypnosis. Ive experimented wondering if it actually works. Weve all seen videos of stage hypnotist shows. Weve zoned out to things we find hypnotic. My personal experimentation suggests theres a lot of hype but its largely hype. Oh I have no doubt that quit smoking hypnosis programs can help but they arent a magic cure. Someone manages to quit smoking because they want to and if the hypnosis helps them to focus on it or to believe they have the strength go for it. I think theres a lot of hype but its just hype. In spite of my clear skepticism I continue to think about it. And anyone who has read my past work knows sometimes I let various forms of mind control creep into my work. Creep. Ha. Thats not the right word at all is it? But to me I enjoy the fun stories the guilty pleasure stories. I like stories where control is used for good not evil. And I read one of those stories recently and the next morning I began work on this story. So I offer a bit of fluffy fun another guilty pleasure. I think we all need those once in a while. Please enjoy. 
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title: Team Building
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