Intrapreneur: Difference between revisions

{{g}}So sayeth Wikipiedia, “[[Intrapreneur|Intrapreneurship]] is the act of behaving like an [[entrepreneur]], while working within a large organisation.” Wikipedia also defines “[[entrepreneur]]ship” as “the capacity and willingness to develop, organise and manage a business venture along with any of its risks to make a profit.”

However imaginative they feel themselves to be, people who work in large organisations — and the [[JC]] speaks here from thirty odd years’ coalface experience, by the way — not only take ''no'' personal risk but construct their entire professional trajectories around the singular objective of ''avoiding'' anything — ''anything'', however innocuous at first sight it may seem — which could, in any conceivable light, ''resemble'' risk. To be sure, the organisation will take risks — it has to: there is no [[return]] without risks — but these will be gormlessly, unwittingly underwritten others in the firm: the laggards, the [[Boxer the Horse]] types, who will loyally plough furrows through landmines, clear paths through the valley of the shadow of death at their own cost, but to the exclusive benefit, should they be completed without ambush, immolation or catastrophe of their [[intrepreneur]]ial colleages.  

Intrapreneurs are the organisation’s [[apex creditor]]s: they feed first, drink longest at the well, and manage their own private [[conflicts of interest]] — namely, to spend as little time at the well as possible, while drafting as much as is humanly possible from it — while the stockholders and actual workers stand by.