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Intrapreneur's 10 Commandments
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Come to work each day
willing to be fired
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Circumvent any orders aimed
at stopping
your dream
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Do any job needed to make
your project work, regardless of your job description
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Find people to help you
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Follow your
intuition about the people you choose, and work only with the
best
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Work underground as long as
you can – publicity triggers corporate immune mechanism
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Never bet on a race unless
you are running it.
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Remember it is easier to
ask for forgiveness than for permission.
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Be true to your goals, but
be realistic about the ways to achieve them.
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Honor your sponsors.
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About
Intrapreneurship
The term 'intrapreneur'
was credited to Gifford Pinchot III by Norman Macrae in the
April 17, 1982 issue of The Economist.
In 1992, The
American Heritage Dictionary acknowledged the popular use of a
new word, intrapreneur, to mean "A person within a large
corporation who takes direct responsibility for turning an idea
into a profitable finished product through assertive risk-taking
and
innovation".
Intrapreneurship is now known as the practice of a corporate
management style that integrates
risk-taking and
innovation approaches, as well as the reward and
motivational techniques,
that are more traditionally thought of as being the province of
entrepreneurship.
Read also:
Intrapreneuring in Action
Based on the authors'
experience helping companies launch over 400 new products and
businesses, Intrapreneuring in Action gives managers at
all levels examples and instructions on how to identify people
within their organizations who behave like entrepreneurs. It
also explains how to avoid classic mistakes while creating a
climate that encourages intrapreneurship and directs
intrapreneurial energy toward company goals. |
