Gossip is used to excite or titillate. Corporate memory is lost or forgotten. Requests for policy clarification are ignored. The open expression of true feelings is absent. The search for cause of the problem is personalized.
People look for direction on how to act or react.
Friendship between professional colleagues is lacking. Complex procedures are initiated by memorandum. Meeting have long agendas and end up going in circles. Inconsistent applications of procedures are not meetings. Mundane announcements are given more time at status 15.