How do your pieces move?

The work environment should be a reasonably nice place but it can't be the Land of Love and Trust. We are, after all, competitive animals.

As a manager there are many factors involved with co-worker interaction. Much like chess you need to know who works best with who and coordinate that the best you can without being too accommodating. Trying to get your employees to work well together is a remarkable task. Everything can become complicated in an instant and perfect the next. As people leave and new employees arrive the real games begin. Who's going to seek territory? Who's going to blab?

Now only if there wasn't so much stress involved.