Mastering Entrepreneurship at Scale
Building an organization where everyone thinks and acts like an owner
Surveys show that 70 percent of employees would prefer to work for themselves or a small business. Many will never have that chance, but no one should have to quit their job to experience the excitement of working in a startup.
Many assume that large companies are constitutionally incapable of entrepreneurship. Yet in pathbreaking companies like Vinci, SpaceX, Haier, BYD and Xiaomi, one finds thousands of individuals who think and act like entrepreneurs. Against the odds, these companies have retained their entrepreneurial mojo even as they’ve scaled up. They understand that entrepreneurship is the engine of progress and prosperity.
That’s why every company needs to embrace the spirit of entrepreneurship. This is the only insurance against irrelevance. Key steps include disaggregating large businesses into small, autonomous units; providing real financial upside for employees that deliver exceptional results; making it easy for entrepreneurs to attract resources and leverage internal capabilities; holding staff functions accountable for supporting entrepreneurs; and building open platforms that attract entrepreneurial talent from outside the firm’s boundaries. The payoff: an organization that disrupts itself, attracts the world’s best talent, and grows faster than its peers.
Gary can help your organization master entrepreneurship at scale.