The document provides advice on how to be entrepreneurial at work. It recommends focusing on meaningfully contributing to your organization's success, thinking outside the box through activities like taking showers or learning about different industries, and persisting through failures like Thomas Edison. Finally, it suggests using data and instincts to make decisions, never saying no to opportunities, and living entrepreneurially so you can spend your career differently than most.

1. Being entrepreneurial at your
workplace
Avlesh Singh
Co-founder & CEO, WebEngage

2. Who am I? And, why have you
been forced to listen to me …
My story: http://avlesh.wordpress.com

3. Okay Mr-know-it-all, tell me why
should I be entrepreneurial at all?
Why should I work for someone while they get rich
because of my hard work?

4. Hmm … lemme tell you a story
Nobody Cares:
http://www.bhorowitz.com/nobody_cares

5. Bottomline?
Your contribution is truly meaningful ONLY when it
helps your organization WIN

6. Who is an entrepreneur?
Somebody who constantly strives for success.
Not somebody who wants to fly business class.

7. How should I become one?
Believe me, you shouldn’t become one.
Until you have these 3 traits in you –
FOCUS. FOCUS. FOCUS
If I had eight hours to chop down a tree I
would spend six hours sharpening my axe.
— Abraham Lincoln

8. Don’t gimme that. I know how to
Focus. Tell me how to become an
entrepreneur …
Well, in that case, you just need to do one thing:
Think out of the box …

9. Really? How?
Simple ways to start thinking out of the box:
http://www.lifehack.org/articles/productivity/11-ways-to-think-outside-the-
box.html
Hint: Take a shower, invite randomness and learn about some other industry.

10. Focus & OOTB Thinking – Done.
What Next?
Genius is 1% inspiration, and 99% perspiration.”
— Thomas Edison

11. Its easy to talk. Be a doer
instead.
Doing makes you an informed person.
Aside, it helps improve your tolerance levels – because talkers will always get paid better than you.

12. Don’t work for your success.
Help your team succeed.
This is precisely the role an entrepreneur plays at her
organization. This is the best way to contribute and get noticed.

13. Never be afraid of failure. Ever.
I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work
— Thomas Edison

14. Have some sense of humor.
Please.
Learn how not to take yourself too seriously:
http://mashable.com/2014/09/04/joan-rivers-lessons/

15. Other low hanging fruits
Use data and instincts together to make decisions.
Never say no to opportunities. Be the force of good.

16. Yikes! All of this sounds too
difficult …
Entrepreneurship is living a few years of your life like most people won’t, so
that you can spend the rest of your life like most people can’t
— Anonymous

17. Ask me anything now …

18. Thanks for your time!
avlesh [@] gmail.com
twitter.com/avlesh