Intrapreneurship

• Managers and roles at different levels:

– Front-line managers: initiator
– Senior-level managers: coach
– Top-level managers: institution-builder
• Front-line managers:
– Champion proposals, push them as hard as
possible
– Attract and retain talent, motivate, build
capabilities, protect the team
 Intrapreneurship
• Senior-level managers:
– Review, challenge, question proposals
– Force to go back and double-check proposals
– Impose discipline, coordination, and control
– … but protect the team
– Manage the tension between setting
standards and providing discipline, and
developing and supporting the unit
– Frame the context