Hurdles To Building Positive Visibility
“When people have confidence in someone as a communicator, they have confidence in that person, period.” –Bert Decker Don’t under-rate your contribution. Others need to hear it, so make it clear for them. How many times have you been in a meeting when someone else has spoken up and you’ve found yourself saying: “That’s exactly … Continue reading
The Hacker Way – The Mechanics of Hacking
Our everyday business lives are filled with incumbent systems, procedures and tools that simply don’t work. They’re constraining, inefficient and block the development of new, better ways of doing things. The intrapreneur is a ‘hacker’ at heart. They find the loops in the system, the paths to get around the blocks. This isn’t hacking in … Continue reading
My Top 20 Intrapreneurship Blog Posts of 2012
Last year I gave you my ‘Top 10 Intrapreneurship Blog Posts of 2011‘. For 2012, that list has doubled! This says it all – intraprenerial thinking is on the rise…and fast! Business leaders and commentators are switching onto the fact that intrapreneurs, and more generally developing an overarching intrapreneurial culture, is key to fostering innovation, … Continue reading
Be Heard
“One option is to struggle to be heard whenever you’re in the room…another is to be the sort of person who is missed when you’re not. The first involves making noise. The second involves making a difference.” – Seth Godin The intrapreneur speaks when others don’t. They have confidence in their message and their ability … Continue reading
The Rise Of The Intrapreneur – The Time Is Now
Intrapreneurship as a concept and as a movement is going through a renaissance at present. Definitions of what constitutes intrapeneurial behaviour may differ, but the volume of dialogue around corporate entrepreneurialism, innovation and value generation is considerable and growing. We’ve seen a proliferation of articles, research, discussions and events about the contributions of intrapreneurs and … Continue reading
Is It Better To Be Right Or Wrong?
The conventional wisdom in life and in business is that you must learn from your mistakes, and that it’s important for you to make mistakes in order to improve and ultimately succeed. But is this really the case? Is this merely a clichéd misnomer, after-all, you should learn a lot more from your successes, most notably to … Continue reading
Think Small
Most employees feel that they have to think and act ‘big’, no matter whether the company that they’re working for is big, mid-sized or even in effect relatively small. In reality, size doesn’t matter, thinking small always works! Just because you’re not in a start-up doesn’t mean you can’t and shouldn’t act like one: be … Continue reading
Rudolf The Red-Nosed Intrapreneur
Although intrapreneurship as a concept and movement wasn’t established until the late 1970’s (as outlined in my post “Reinventing the ‘Intrapreneur’ for the 21st Century“), intrapreneurs have existed and operated for much longer, despite not being tagged as such. A classic case is the renowned innovator and leader, Rudolf the Red-Nosed Reindeer. Rudolf operated within … Continue reading
Defining Your Own Role
In today’s corporate jungle, individuals need to define, or more accurately, re-define their own roles if they want to succeed. Market dynamics, corporate re-engineering, downsizing, internationalisation and ever accelerating technological development are all factors which are driving rapid changes in existing jobs and precipitating the creation of new ones. Gone are the days where merely … Continue reading
Mark Cavendish – A Case Study In Success
On Sunday Mark Cavendish became the World Road Cycling Champion, the first Briton to hold the title since Tom Simpson in 1965, 46 years; as well as becoming the first rider since Belgium’s Freddy Maertens, 30 years ago, to win both the World Championship and the Tour de France green jersey in the same year. … Continue reading
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