Our work team used to joke around in meetings and people would riff off each other's ideas and now everyone's so careful and professional that even our brainstorms feel like performance reviews. The work is fine but the energy is completely flat and I think we're all afraid to be the first one to crack a joke.
More people experience this than they realize.
You've professionalized yourselves out of the very creativity that made you effective.
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