CHAPTER 7

Essential Skills of Intrapreneurs

You have your culture and infrastructure ready. You might even have received a couple of good ideas from your employees. You and your leadership team have excitedly sponsored some of them, hoping they would drive future businesses. But three months have gone by, and nothing much has happened. Then six months in, your employees tell you they’re still at the initial stage, just clarifying the details. A year later, nothing has been launched. You are, quite rightly, wondering what went wrong. And the answer is usually quite simple: your employees may be passionate but they’re not equipped to be intrapreneurs just yet.

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