Some Wal-Mart employees enact a ritual at the start…

Some Wal-Mart employees enact a ritual at the start of each of their shifts: "Give me a W! Give me an A! Give me an L! Give me a squiggly! Give me an M! Give me an A! Give me an R! Give me a T!"-followed by "Whose Wal-Mart is it? It's my Wal-Mart." The instructions specify that when the "squiggly" moment arrives, all employees-in unison-must shimmy their hips. No wonder the meetings have been described as "two parts militaristic, one part kumbaya." You'd think that, in such a large and streamlined company, it'd be all efficiency all the time-with no extra room for weird rituals. Yet executives understand the importance of trying to build team spirit and how to foster it.

— from Time

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