Notes on building teams that last
Editorial notes
A few things are worth stating plainly before you scroll through the people on this page. They are not rankings, not endorsements, and not a directory of anyone looking for work. Each portrait is a short documentary record of a trade being learned inside a team, and the details matter more than the names.
If a portrait mentions a city, a role, or a number of years, that is because the person told us so during the interview. We do not fill gaps with assumptions.
We photograph people at work, in the clothes they actually wear on shift. The single object kept in color — an apron, a notebook, a set of keys — is chosen by the person, not by us.
Every quoted line is read back to the speaker before publication. If someone asks to soften a sentence about a former teammate, we do it, and we note the change in the piece.
We describe the shape of a job — shift length, training time, and who reports to whom — but we leave individual employment terms out. Those details vary quickly across Argentina, the Caribbean, and everywhere else we report.
The Dominican Republic edition runs shorter pieces and practical team-building guides. The reporting rules above apply the same way in both editions.
It is not a hiring board, a mentorship program, or a place to promote a business. If you want to pitch a team story for the magazine, that conversation belongs on the contact page, not here.
Also worth reading
The people in this gallery rarely work alone for long. These three pieces follow the same thread from another angle: a workshop that trains its own crew, a kitchen that loses power mid-service, and a club that decides to give one person a dedicated coordinator role for the first time.
A five-person letterpress studio in Barracas stopped hiring experienced operators and started teaching teenagers from the block instead. Two apprentices and both owners explain how that changed the first two years.
Read the interviewA grill cook in Palermo, a pastry chef in Santiago, and a line cook in Punta Cana walk through the same blackout at 9:40 pm on a full Saturday. They disagree on almost everything.
Read the columnTwenty-two years of volunteers, then one dedicated part-time coordinator. Board members describe the resistance, the planning sheet that settled the argument, and the unglamorous work of chasing paperwork and mediating between two coaches who had stopped speaking.