Disagreeing with your company
Tori Wieldt: How challenging it is to work for a big company that wants to be able to dictate things. In one of my roles, there was a bit of a culture shock after having gone from one company that was very lenient and open to a company that was not that way at all.
The company wanted to run every blog post through a legal organization. I was fighting hard and saying, "That's crazy! We need to be able to have comments on blogs. The whole point is engaging with people, which means they can say good and bad things about the company."
"You have got to learn not to freak out if one person says something about you that you don't like."
—Tori Wieldt
Modern companies have Twitterfall at their conferences. You have got to learn not to freak out if one person says something about you that you don't like. The arena has changed and it's a mindset shift. You have to let go of that control...
