Empowerment and Creativity in the Corporate Space

Core Drive 3: Empowerment of Creativity & Feedback also applies to the workplace and employee motivation.

Occasionally, my friends with corporate positions reach out to me about making the switch towards a career in entrepreneurship. More often than not, the reason they want to start their own companies is simply due to the frustration of not seeing feedback on their creative ideas in the corporate environment. Frequently, months will pass after they have proposed a plan or concept before there is any response or feedback through the corporation’s bureaucratic channels. More often than not, the employee never hears back on that creative idea.

In a bureaucratic organization, though everyone likes to talk about innovation, innovation requires risk, and the corporate ladder trains people to be risk averse. If anything new is happening, it is only after authorization through many signatures - to the point where no one could...