Corporate Culture Crushes Creativity
How’s that for a title with alliteration! I’ve been working in a corporate environment for the past 14 years, and one
Corporate Cruelty Crushes Creativity
thing that I’ve learned above all else, is that corporate culture crushes creativity. It’s probably not a conscious decision, but it is definitely a bi-product of control. Corporations are all about control. Trying to set policies and procedures that the worker bees can’t deviate from. There is too much ego, too much posturing, too much control, and not enough trust.
How many jobs ask the employee to leave their brain at the door? I’ve been in meetings where the managers actually say, “We don’t pay our people to think.” If I didn’t care about keeping my job, I would reply, “Well the CEO pays you to think, and if you actually did, you’d realize that you are an idiot!” This mindset is brought about by managers thinking the employees are just going to F things up. When in reality, it is the manager’s poor management that causes the issues.