Recently moved from a smaller agency to a huge corporation, and the culture shift has been intense. I used to be hands-on with my accounts, but now I’m more of a cog in a machine. The perks are great, but I feel so disconnected from my clients and the work. Has anyone else gone from small to big? How did you adjust?

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When i feel like I'm stuck in a world of crm, forecasts and bowlers i schedule a road trip. "Sorry, on the road with clients, I'll get to that next week" is a great answer. Even better is the "oh, don't worry, I'll put in a placeholder for you that's good enough" response.

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I did it early on, and I found it a little disconcerting for a while. But I caught on, once I realized there's just a different dynamic to everything. It was difficult to adjust to having more people involved with anything I worked on. But over time you just get used to it. Humans are odd, we can adjust to anything.

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Such a great question, I’m going through the same right now lol.

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