What Comes After Corporate? Part 3: More Red Tape?
What happens when the rules designed to help a company actually start getting in the way of the people doing the work? In this episode of Wickedly Smart Women, host Anjel B. Hartwell and Amanda Goodwin continue the seven-part anniversary series diving into the frustration, exhaustion, and loss of autonomy that can come from corporate red tape.
You'll also hear why simplifying your own business matters just as much as escaping corporate bureaucracy. Leaving corporate doesn't mean recreating the same complexity for yourself. The goal is to build a consultancy that gives you more choice, clarity, and control while allowing you to put your expertise to work in ways that support your financial, mental, emotional, and physical well-being.
If you've ever thought, "There's nothing I can do. My hands are tied," this conversation may have you looking at your corporate role in a whole new way.
What You Will Learn:
- How constantly being asked to "pick your brain" can reveal the value of your intellectual property and social capital.
- Why your professional network can be a valuable business asset.
- How corporate red tape can create barriers between employees, customers, and the work that actually matters.
- Why compliance is important, but unnecessary policies can make systems less effective.
- How rigid workplace policies can affect employee autonomy, motivation, and performance.
- Why return-to-office mandates can become a breaking point for experienced professionals.
- How forced collaboration and forced workplace culture can undermine autonomy.
- Why complicated corporate hiring and promotion processes don't always measure the qualities that create successful leaders.
- The importance of relationships, project accomplishment, team satisfaction, and client satisfaction in evaluating leadership.
- How to recognize when corporate systems no longer align with your values.
- Why leaving corporate doesn't mean you should recreate corporate-level complexity in your own consultancy.
- How simplifying your offer can help you move more quickly toward revenue.
- Why clarity and simplicity are essential when building a boutique consultancy.
If this episode has you thinking about leaving corporate to start a consultancy, begin here.
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