<story><title>Your Company Is Not a Family </title><url>http://blogs.hbr.org/2014/06/your-company-is-not-a-family/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>jordan0day</author><text>It&amp;#x27;s certainly not a family, but a &amp;quot;team&amp;quot; probably isn&amp;#x27;t right, either.&lt;p&gt;If you company wants to use a sports team metaphor, that&amp;#x27;s fine, but just remember that many professional sports have &lt;i&gt;players unions&lt;/i&gt; and &lt;i&gt;guaranteed contracts&lt;/i&gt;.&lt;p&gt;Oh, what&amp;#x27;s that? Not such a big fan of the sports team metaphor now?</text></comment>
<story><title>Your Company Is Not a Family </title><url>http://blogs.hbr.org/2014/06/your-company-is-not-a-family/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>adwf</author><text>Using sports metaphors is a particularly bad way to go about it in this instance.  The average young NFL player is only expecting a career lasting about 5 years, maybe 10 for exceptional guys;  The average young office worker is looking for 40 years.&lt;p&gt;If you were fired as frequently as players get traded in NFL, we&amp;#x27;d be living hellish careers!</text></comment>