Corporate team-building weekends get a lot of stick. Those that aren’t opportunities for desk-bound fantasists to play at soldiers or survivalists, often degenerate into embarrassing binges.
They can also do some good, benefiting other communities and not just the bank accounts of flaky consultants. That is the case with Deutsche Bank’s plans this weekend, when 110 staff from its Asian institutional client group ICG debt sales force will be travelling to Bangkok to help rebuild a school badly damaged by the 2011 floods.
The school, called Wat Mongkol Pugaram, is in an extremely poor part of Bangkok and is attended by 78 children from nearby farming...
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