You got into a good large company. In huge old companies (e.g. gov) there's often the opposite problem -- no one wants to take anything. They know that if they

You got into a good large company. In huge old companies (e.g. gov) there's often the opposite problem -- no one wants to take anything. They know that if they do something at least once -- it becomes their problem forever. With some amount of job security fiefdoms of course.