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hhhmmm
Jan 1, 2006
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I've made a similar transition myself, quantitative PhD to finance.

How do you manage HR and teambuilding exercises in a positive way for your career? My employer has a lot of focus on team spirit, engagement, networking and "developing leadership skills". I suspect that this is partially because a lot of the organizartion have dull jobs or a high pressure on sales. However, my team loves our primary tasks in statistics/risk management but are a bad fit socially in the corporate culture. So we have some major challenges in
1) The ongoing discussions on team spirit/engagement/networking are detrimental to the motivation of the team.
2) We have almost no influence within the corporation to get poo poo done, especially IT-related. Even for projects with hundreds of millions in savings or serious problems with compliance that risks hundreds of millions in fines.

So I need to manage the corporate culture in a way that is positive for my career without wanting to shot myself. Also the team needs to reposition itself in the organization in a positive way, in a way that fits our team better.

Any thoughts?

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