Do you work in a large office? Are you a Web developer, Graphic Designer, or go-to-monkey in your corporate office? If so, I am sure you have felt the creative lock-down inside of the corporate office that you live in. Let’s face it, you live there, 9 AM to 5 PM is a long day. But that’s another subject. So why are corporations afraid of your creativity? Ultimately it comes down to trust and self-confidence. Not of the individual (whether that be the employee or employer), it comes down to the company. Larger companies see entrepreneurial idea’s not as assets, but as possible liabilities. With good reason, since every start-up is a potential loss, so it’s safe to assume that every idea is also a potential loss. Employees are forced to work for the company, not by the company. Meaning, they tell you what to produce, and you produce it.

A more positive approach to idea’s and creativity in corporate offices should be open minded archiving. Where idea’s can be given freely and given good reasoning. Meaning employee’s should feel like they want to give their employing company fresh idea’s. As an employer you should realize that with every employee you have, there is a possibility of that employee having a genius idea. But what happens when an employee has a good idea or creative insight? Most times, it is pushed away, due to the fact that the company or hierarchy of employee’s didn’t create it first. Just that simple fact alone, stands for what seems to be the close minded, “you don’t know what you are talking about kid” attitude.

Do they think that your idea could be bigger than them? Possible, but not very probable. Only minute amounts of people have ever left companies to create a start-up that becomes larger than their previous employer. With that being said, I use minute in the manner that the previous company is a corporation and not a small business. The part that doesn’t make sense to many is, the company that you are employed by, only hired you for your creativity. But yet, they rarely ask for a majority of employee’s to create something completely on their own. It is watched, it is controlled, it is directed. All in manner unpleasing to the employee. Could it be safe to say they are afraid of your creativity? When they see your asset as a liability, then it is safe to say yes.