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Looking at your business with

an entrepreneurial mindset

will help you generate ideas for

maximizing opportunities for

growth that no one else has

seen—either within or outside

the organization.

How can we help you? Celebrate

both successes and failures as

signs of entrepreneurship, and be

sure to reward the contributions

people make to creating value for the

business, and responding flexibly to

opportunities to solve problems for

customers. Scrutinize your business

for new opportunities. Think hard,

and above all, think creatively.

Develop your own

entrepreneurial

leadership skills by

asking more questions

of your customers and

colleagues—what issues

cause you regular hassles?

Large corporations are increasingly

encouraging their leaders to show

entrepreneurial zeal within the

mature organization—a phenomenon

called intrapreneurship.

of leaders in top US firms

are serial entrepreneurs

72 %

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