3. What can intrapreneurship achieve?
New strategies, roadmaps, vision
New business lines, products, solutions
New markets
Competitive differentiators, competition killers
Novel partnerships (inside and out)
Steps out of an organizational dead-end
And of course…new opportunities for the
intrapreneur
5. Doesn’t Intrapreneurship =
Entrepreneurship?
Similar – vision, conviction, willingness to work and to
try many avenues to achieve, etc.
Different in two significant ways:
Dependencies
Nuance
Do your homework. Understand your world, and
who/what matters to achieve the success you seek
Don’t over-accommodate
9. Ideation – it’s a volume play
Be relentless in your ideation and the
testing of the status quo
Creativity and vision help, but they
aren’t the most critical prerequisites –
instead, be open-minded and
perceptive
Ideas should be founded on a real
potential outcome
Single-step fixes are seldom enough –
it’s the completed jigsaw puzzle that
changes the world
Share seeds of insights, ideas and
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experiences – no hoarding allowed!
10. Friends…you gotta have ‘em
It’s not enough to understand
the finer points of your
organization
Cultivate an ecosystem of the
like-minded, the willing, the
fearless and those with
complimentary skillsets,
experience and access
Help, mentor, inspire (and
always keep learning)
Be a resource for change
12. Go tell it on the mountain….
…just have your chorus ready to
chant behind you!
13. Execution – the bottom line
Above all, do what you say you’ll do – outstanding
execution is bottom-line credibility
Never stop talking, thinking and considering, but always
make real progress
Asking for help is a sign of strength, not weakness
Once you’ve ‘crossed the finish line’, keep running
Give credit to everyone else and mean it
Intrapreneurs create environments that help them execute,
over and over again
The Wind and Rain Bridge on the Linxi River of Sanjiang County is gorgeous. Built in 1916 to resemble a rainbow, the builders used no nails or rivets but instead dovetailed thousands of pieces of wood.Curiosity gets delivered by the Skycrane, an incredibly innovative, yet highly complex machine that had to operate flawlessly and autonomously millions of miles from Earth and the NASA team that designed it.
