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Intrapreneurs as ‘Free Agents and Freelancers’

Intrapreneurs as ‘Free Agents and Freelancers’

by Susan Foley | Aug 31, 2015 | Competencies, Entrepreneurs, Free Agents, Freelancers, Intrapreneurs, Self-awareness, self-employed, Talent, Workforce

According to the Career Advisory Board, “One in two American workers is projected to be self employed by 2020.” The recent study highlighted the fact that professionals today are choosing self-employment in order to control the type of work they want to pursue. Many...
Corporate Entrepreneurship: Simple yet Complex

Corporate Entrepreneurship: Simple yet Complex

by Susan Foley | Jul 28, 2015 | Business Growth, Change, Corporate Entrepreneurship, Entrepreneurial, Entrepreneurial Leaders, Entrepreneurs, Leaders, Work

A friend of mine gave me a lapel pin in the shape of a cork screw. The card with it read, ‘Simple yet complex.’ Years earlier we had started a business selling wine albums for individuals that wanted to keep track of their favorite wines. I was working at...
How Entrepreneurial is Your Organization?

How Entrepreneurial is Your Organization?

by Susan Foley | Jul 7, 2015 | Business Growth, Corporate Entrepreneurs, Corporate Entrepreneurship, Engagement, Entrepreneurial, New Ventures, Startups

At dinner the other night with some former colleagues we started reminiscing about our experience building a new business for a Fortune 100 company years earlier. It was one of the most rewarding and exciting things any of us had ever done. That experience is what...
Finding Your True North as Intrapreneurs

Finding Your True North as Intrapreneurs

by Susan Foley | Jun 26, 2015 | Alignment, Business Growth, Change, Corporate Entrepreneurs, Intrapreneurs, Leaders, Social Intrapreneurs

We have been programmed from an early age to be this way, do it that way, use experience to guide us, rely on the word of others, prove every point, avoid conflict, embrace conformity and not veer too far off course. Now we are looking at a new way of being that is in...
9 Ways to Foster Entrepreneurial Behavior

9 Ways to Foster Entrepreneurial Behavior

by Susan Foley | May 5, 2015 | Business Growth, Corporate Entrepreneurs, Corporate Entrepreneurship, Entrepreneurial Leaders, Innovation, Intrapreneurs, Leaders, New Ventures, Success

Corporate entrepreneurship is vital to the future of every enterprise, but it presents difficult challenges for companies and their entrepreneurial employees. Our research suggests that success comes from managing these unique relationships differently. Nowhere is...
Moving Forward, No Turning Back

Moving Forward, No Turning Back

by Susan Foley | Apr 21, 2015 | Change, Corporate Entrepreneurs, Entrepreneurs, Intrapreneurs, Talent

Entrepreneurial experiences inside existing organizations are revealing. They put everything in a new light. It is a personal and professional experience that will change the way you look at work. The experience forces you take a hard look at yourself and the...
Resistance to Change the #1 Challenge

Resistance to Change the #1 Challenge

by Susan Foley | Apr 8, 2015 | Business Growth, Change Agents, Corporate Entrepreneurs, Intrapreneurs

Resistance to change was the number one challenge that intrapreneurs and social intrapreneurs told us was holding them back. Despite the progress many of them were making in their respective organizations. They felt that resistance created the biggest obstacle to...

Intrapreneurs: The New Face of Leadership

by Susan Foley | Mar 17, 2015 | Change Agents, Corporate Entrepreneurs, Entrepreneurial Leaders, Innovation, Intrapreneurs, Leaders, Work

Intrapreneurs are the new face of leadership. They are willing to step up, speak out and make a difference. They are demonstrating confidence, commitment and courage in the face of adversity. They are open, transparent and committed to moving their organizations...
A Benchmark for Social Intrapreneurs

A Benchmark for Social Intrapreneurs

by Susan Foley | Feb 10, 2015 | Competencies, Corporate Social Responsibility, Intrapreneurs, millennial, Social Intrapreneurs, Sustainability

As the demand for social intrapreneurs increases organizations will be faced with identifying the right individuals for this position. It takes a unique combination of competencies to be effective and successful in this role. It’s not just about what they do but who...
Entrepreneurial Leaders – Alone on an Island

Entrepreneurial Leaders – Alone on an Island

by Susan Foley | Feb 3, 2015 | Change Agents, Entrepreneurial Leaders, Leaders, Team

Can you imagine being stranded on a desert island with hundreds of boats sailing by and nobody seeming to notice you? Well, if you have ever been an entrepreneurial leader, you know what it’s like dealing with isolation. It is the loneliest part of the job. It isn’t...
Struggle for Legitimacy

Struggle for Legitimacy

by Susan Foley | Jan 21, 2015 | Business Growth, collaboration, Corporate Entrepreneurs, Entrepreneurial Leaders, Entrepreneurs, Intrapreneurs, Team, Work

All entrepreneurial efforts inside organizations encounter resistance. It is how you deal with it that can make the difference between success and failure. Even though the CEO and corporation have sanctioned the new initiative, the rest of the organization may be slow...
Next Wave of Business Thought and Action

Next Wave of Business Thought and Action

by Susan Foley | Jan 13, 2015 | Corporate Social Responsibility, Intrapreneurs, Social Intrapreneurs, Sustainability

The futurist Alvin Toffler wrote the book The Third Wave in 1980 to explain the evolution of societies through various stages or “waves.” The premise of his book was that “human history, while being complex and contradictory, can be seen to fit patterns or what he...
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