The fact is that, aside from specific product or service offerings, most companies are exactly the same. Today’s business world is a homogenized culture that prohibits the true diversity of any individual or department to shine. Business owners and managers enforce rules that stifle what is unique and creative in their team so as not to offend any outside group. They dictate regulations about company dress, speech, practices, and even office decorations in an attempt to create safe and predictable environments that limit risk. The irony is that in the midst of enforcing all these standard operating practices, many business leaders actually wonder why their company is, at best, mediocre.
When employees encounter such environments, complacency sets in and productivity declines. Sure, many of them may enter the company full of motivation and great ideas; however, as the top executives pigeonhole them into certain departmental tasks, the employees lose that initial spark of creativity. They begin to do the same procedure day after day, and as they feel more and more like a mere drone, they become less observant and less willing to break the status quo. No wonder so many companies today are unremarkable.