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Five Ways to Know If You’re Cut Out to Be a Corporate Entrepreneur

by Wolcott and Lippitz on December 1, 2009

Fostering corporate entrepreneurship means a new focus on attracting and retaining people with the determination and skill to build bridges to future growth.  Assuming your company is open to the possibility of entrepreneurial growth, do you have what it takes to be a corporate entrepreneur?   This posting at Fast Company describes five characteristics of the species entrepreneurus corporatus, which is distinct in some ways from the start-up entrepreneur.

  1. Head in the Future, Feet on the Ground
  2. Thick Skin, Open Mind
  3. Political Savvy
  4. Value Obsession
  5. Flexible Conviction

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lippitz December 3, 2009 at 12:34 pm

An insightful review on this blog (as well as our comment) appears at The Radical Clarity Group:
http://radclarity.blogspot.com/2009/12/5-ways-to-id-corporate-entrepreneur.html

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