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I was hired in a large corporation to 'bring an entrepreneurial spirit' to the organization. After a year and a half of being pounded on for trying innovative things and attempting to move fast I left. On my way out one of the people on the hiring team said "I think I know why we do not have any entrepreneurial spirit; you get punished for it"

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It's unfortunately an all too common story. I was part of a small, young team that coalesced around an ambitious project. After being leveraged for a few large initiatives we were split up to "spread the culture", after a year plus of nonstop power struggles I put in my resignation.

I'll bet they hired someone else to try and do the same thing, too, rather than try to figure out why their people don't do it on their own.

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