Business Chemistry

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We're pretty sure that at some point in your life, you've been asked a version of the following question:

If you were stranded on a desert island (with plenty of food and water), what or who would you most want with you?

As Business Chemistry practitioners, we suspect that your answer to what you would like to have says a lot about your individual style and preferences. For now, though, let's save that particular exploration for a future team-building event. Instead, let's focus on the question of who. And let's assume that you're limited to a handful of people.

Setting aside the consideration of whether or not it's cruel to subject anyone else to your island fate, most people would probably answer with some combination of family and friends. Or perhaps you would choose a collection of intriguing, famous personalities (after all, this IS a hypothetical, so why not hang out with A-list movie stars and gurus?). Or maybe you'd opt for people with relevant skills, like a survivalist, an engineer, or a doctor, for instance. Maybe if you're lucky, your individual social sphere captures the Venn overlap of each of these categories. Most of the time, though, you'll likely have to make trade-offs between categories in selecting your fellow castaways.

Of course this is a ...