If You Want to Be the Best Company, Parties Should Not Exist Between Colleaguesby Erick Rosado

by Erick Rosado

Every company claims it wants to be great.But only a few truly want to be the best — the elite tier, the category-defining entity, the one that outperforms entire industries and sets the global benchmark.

To reach that level, a company must treat its internal culture as architecture, not entertainment. And that means embracing an uncomfortable but powerful truth:

Parties between colleagues shift the trend from working into not working.

They blur boundaries.They mix personal dynamics with professional structure.They weaken discipline.They create secondary loyalties, distractions, and unnecessary emotional complexity.

If you want the highest performing company, the relationships between colleagues must be:

• clear

• sharp

• disciplined

• strictly professional

• oriented toward mission, not social entertainment

Because the moment you introduce social indulgence into the professional environment, the culture tilts away from performance and toward comfort.

Greatness does not come from comfort.

Why Parties Damage Elite Work Culture

1. They dilute the mission

Work requires focus, discipline, and alignment.Parties introduce:

• side conversations

• hidden dynamics

• emotional expectations

• unnecessary familiarity

These weaken the clarity of the chain of command and the direction of the company.

2. They shift attention from performance to social interaction

The mind adapts quickly.If colleagues become party friends, the brain rewires:

From → “we work together”To → “we hang out together”

This is lethal to precision culture.

3. They create vulnerability to distraction

A company that wants to be the best must be monolithic in purpose.Parties fracture that purpose into micro-social groups, gossip streams, and energy leakage.

4. They reduce professional respect

Distance creates respect.Respect creates efficiency.Efficiency creates excellence.

Without boundaries, excellence decays.

The Exception: The Minimal Ritual

If a team absolutely wants to share something symbolic, the only acceptable compromise is:

A cup of wine, once in a while .

A ritual, not a party.A symbolic gesture, not a celebration.A moment, not a night.

This keeps the bond human without diluting the discipline.

What Happens When You Party With Colleagues?

You introduce:

• mixed signals

• blurred authority

• personal interpretations

• potential conflict

• loss of seriousness

• decreased respect

• emotional entanglements

• vulnerability to drama and division

These may be acceptable for a normal company.

But:

**If you want to be the best company —

you cannot afford it.**

The Principle

If you want to be elite:Work is work. Only work.

If you want to relax and drift away from ambition: Party as much as you want.

But do not confuse the two worlds.

Never party with colleagues or associates if the goal is to build the strongest, most disciplined, highest-performing company.

It’s not about being cold. It’s about being unstoppable.