General Motors

Very flexible work environment. Great pay. Decent benefits. New furniture and fancy meeting rooms.

As a large corporation, it is very difficult to instill positive change. It's easy to burn off motivational factors, especially when you're pigeon-holed into a particular task.

We were forced to do a DFSS project in the first and second year, which is framed at driving innovation, but is more so just a check-mark with no real value-added benefit. This is especially true when you can piggyback on someone else's project, like a high school project team member who is responsible for only formatting and printing off the assignment.

Create an innovation team like they do in Warren, MI, and get people working full-time on the latest and greatest. Fund it by selling off that unused Herman Miller furniture collecting dust.

Also, stop playing GM commercials on the cafe screens. If #buyGM or #iMindlesslyDrinkTheGMCoolaid were a thing, you wouldn't see all the new Mazda/Subaru owners in the parking lot.