What does it mean working as an Intrapreneur?
— building a new businesses inside established companies... how can we help employees to do that?
Most companies, when hoping to improve innovation, focus on generating ideas. Managers obsess over the front end of the innovation process. But the real leverage is in the back end—in execution, in Intrapreneurship.
Here are the 10 commandments of Intrapreneurs:
1.Come to work each day willing to be fired.
2.Circumvent any orders aimed at stopping your dream.
3. Do any job needed to make your project work
4. Find people to help you
5. Follow your intuition about the people you choose, and work only with the best.
6. Work as long as you can.
7. Never bet on a race unless you are running in it.
8. Remember it is easier to ask for forgiveness than for permission.
9. Be true to your goals, but be realistic about the wasy to achieve them
10.Honour your sponsors.
Companies which are willing to let their employees be Intrapreneurial, will see new businesses develop within their established ones, allowing for growth.
