In the larger corporations I have worked with people tend to be less involved in terms of passion and happiness compared to people in smaller businesses.

What makes this happen? Is it the sheer size of the group of people that kills off the dynamics? Is it that larger corporations always attract “safe mode” type employees? Is it that the employees have been working in the same position for far too long ?

Well… in my opinion it’s as simple as the distance from themselves to the end user or client.

When a company or department reaches a certain
size it starts to focus on its internal goals and development, and loses sight of the bigger purpose.

They simply start the day by entering safe mode because they, intentionally or unintentionally, are protecting the position they are holding. They start approving and denying stuff on a will-this-make-me-look-good-in-front-of-my-peers basis instead of from a will-this-benefit-our-clients-and-business-goals persective.

Thats when the machinery becomes greater than the business, when regulation is greater than improvisation.

If that happens, how far away from losing clients is a company at that stage?

I’m scared shitless to stumble on to one of those people when I work with large organizations. They can, very effectively, whithin a couple of days kill a project. And in a couple of years kill the whole business.

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