The Ultimate Corporate Entrepreneur

Corporate Entrepreneurship 2008 Style

This is the year that corporations will raise the bar on workforce innovation with “homegrown” entrepreneurship leading the way, but also where homegrown will increasingly include companies outside the U.S.   

What is helping to drive this entrepreneurial shift in the global workplace?

1. Wider adoption of social software and collaborative tools
2. Competition for talent - attraction and retention
3. Demographic and generational dynamics 

Business leaders must foster enterprise innovation at a faster clip if they expect to maintain their competitive advantage while also keeping costs down. How well they manage these three dynamics will determine success beyond 2008.

This feature article offers three areas where organizations can leverage these disruptive opportunities.

• Homegrown innovation
• Collective intelligence
• Career reinvention

Winning Formula for Life: 11 Things I've Learned Along the Way

I recently shared my business experience with a group of university women representing various countries who were interested in working for an American  company.

The eleven success tips I shared with them were neither gender nor culture specific, and applied to individuals interested in working for U.S.-based corporations, as well as service providers delivering products and services to global companies. 

Their questions quickly shifted the presentation’s focus from a pure business-centric one to an informal discussion on my roadmap for life. 

11 Success Tips for Life

11)  Take more risks, fail faster, and accept responsibility for your choices.

10)  The best part of business is the people we meet along the way.

09)  Communicate as if there is a tomorrow to remind you of yesterday’s words.

Winning Formula: Connecting the Elements

What is experience?

The dictionary tells us it’s the accumulation of knowledge or skill that comes from active participation in events or activities. 

Entrepreneurial problem-solving teaches us what it takes to succeed and prepares us for turning success on its head by refusing to do things the same way again. Resiliency is the art of rebounding from our setbacks and applying its lessons to future challenges. 

The new corporate entrepreneur’s Winning Formula is comprised of five critical elements. Based on over three decades of qualitative experience and quantitative results these elements, when interconnected, can achieve greater results than any element on its own:

1. Communication Intelligence
2. Negotiating Power
3. Business Ownership
4. Entrepreneurial Leadership
5. Global Relationships