How to Be an Entrepreneur in a Big Enterprise – and Succeed!

I often give talks about – and recently led a series of discussions on – how to “Develop a Startup Mindset.”  Coming out of those are several articles, including the below piece from our Center for Executive Education at UC Berkeley Haas.  The big question: How can we take the types of leadership practices and ways of thinking that drive substantial growth and value-creation in SF Bay Area startup ventures, and adapt them for innovators and corporate entrepreneurs inside large enterprises?

Here is the article that came out of these interviews.  There’s also a video link at the bottom if you truly want to hear it in my own words.  ~  mc

Staying competitive is critical to business success, requiring leaders who possess the skills and mindsets of an entrepreneur. Anyone can learn to have a start-up mindset — as long as they take risks, embrace failure and “question the status quo.”

Can entrepreneurial skills be learned, or are they innate? How can leaders apply a startup mindset to existing corporate structures? Mark Coopersmith is a senior fellow at UC Berkeley’s Lester Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation and teaches the UC Berkeley Executive Education Program: The Start-Up Mindset. His experiences launching startups, creating new ventures inside global enterprises and advising dozens of companies have shown him that entrepreneurial mindsets and skills can be taught and applied if we apply the lessons from Silicon Valley.

 
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How to Be an Entrepreneur in a Big Enterprise – and Succeed!