Word: intrapreneurs
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DEATH REVEALED. Philip D. Estridge, 47, easygoing, exuberant IBM vice president and "intrapreneur" who between 1980 and 1984 moved with record speed and scant respect for sacrosanct tradition to build the company's personal computer division into a 10,000-employee, $5 billion-a-year concern with one hit product, the revolutionary PC, and one miss, the hapless PCjr, whose production was stopped last April for lack of sales; in the crash of Delta Air Lines Flight 191 near Dallas...
...book, Pinchot gives "The Intrapreneur's Ten Commandments." The first two: come to work each day willing to be fired; circumvent any orders aimed at stopping your dream. Such attitudes are not welcome in all companies. But Pinchot argues that large corporations can prosper in today's rapidly changing business environment only if they are willing to encourage employees with fresh ideas to come forward and bet their careers on new projects...
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