“A business that wants to be able to innovate, wants to have a chance to succeed and prosper in a time of rapid change, has to build entrepreneurial management into its own system. It has to adopt policies that create, throughout the entire organization, the desire to innovate and the habits of entrepreneurship and innovation. To be a successful entrepreneur, the existing business, large or small, has be managed as an entrepreneurial business.”
– Peter Drucker
Entrepreneurship and innovation are inextricably connected, as Drucker reminds us.
- How well do our organizations balance the urgency of today’s business with proactively building the capacity to adapt in times of rapid change?
- In which areas have we built entrepreneurial management into our organization and in which areas have we failed?
- What could we start doing today to start developing a pervasive culture of entrepreneurship in our organization?
It behooves us to keep up with all the thinking, and to listen to the masters who have had it right for years…
