> If you're impatient, then you're going to have to work at a startup or start your own company. I think that's exactly the point of the article. > the trick

> If you're impatient, then you're going to have to work at a startup or start your own company. I think that's exactly the point of the article. > the trick is to get engaged and routinely demonstrate that you care It's hard to care when you don't have ownership. It's impossible to 'demonstrate that you care' when you don't actually care that much. > If instead you ask your boss about the customer's needs or take the initiative to track down and talk to the sales person in charge of the account for some additional detail, you've effectively taken a small piece of ownership and showed some initiative. I do that sometimes, but it often falls on deaf ears. The response is often: yeah the product sucks, our design sucks, but that's how it is, we know that and we're not gonna let you fix it; we need you to work on XYZ instead.