{"id":3007,"date":"2019-06-17T05:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-06-17T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dereklidow.com\/?p=3007"},"modified":"2019-12-10T16:49:53","modified_gmt":"2019-12-10T16:49:53","slug":"what-corporate-entrepreneurship-gets-wrong-and-how-it-can-damage-your-company","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dereklidow.com\/what-corporate-entrepreneurship-gets-wrong-and-how-it-can-damage-your-company\/","title":{"rendered":"What Corporate Entrepreneurship Gets Wrong And How It Can Damage Your Company"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"speakable-paragraph\">The notion of corporate entrepreneurship has been around since the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/timreview.ca\/article\/1007\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-ga-track=\"ExternalLink:https:\/\/timreview.ca\/article\/1007\">1970s<\/a>. But only recently has anyone candidly stated what history could have already taught us: \u201cThere is no such thing as a corporate entrepreneur.\u201d So&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/hbr.org\/2018\/02\/why-innovators-in-big-companies-dont-count-as-entrepreneurs\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-ga-track=\"ExternalLink:https:\/\/hbr.org\/2018\/02\/why-innovators-in-big-companies-dont-count-as-entrepreneurs\">wrote<\/a>&nbsp;Scott Kirsner for&nbsp;<em>Harvard Business Review&nbsp;<\/em>last year.<\/p>\n<p>Kirsner ably analyzes five ways in which real entrepreneurs differ from their corporate counterparts: entrepreneurial freedom versus corporate bureaucracy, huge financial upside versus limited compensation inside corporations, gut-wrenching fear of failure versus the knowledge that the corporation isn\u2019t going to go under, a do-anything persistence versus the possibility of getting fired for going too far, and a longer time horizon for success versus the pressure for quarterly results.<\/p>\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/dereklidow\/2019\/06\/17\/what-corporate-entrepreneurship-gets-wrong-and-how-it-can-damage-your-company\/#570f1b2e6615\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The notion of corporate entrepreneurship has been around since the&nbsp;1970s. But only recently has anyone candidly stated what history could have already taught us: \u201cThere is no such thing as a corporate entrepreneur.\u201d So&nbsp;wrote&nbsp;Scott Kirsner for&nbsp;Harvard Business Review&nbsp;last year. Kirsner ably analyzes five ways in which real entrepreneurs differ from their corporate counterparts: entrepreneurial freedom&hellip;","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"link","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dereklidow.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3007"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dereklidow.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dereklidow.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dereklidow.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dereklidow.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3007"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dereklidow.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3007\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dereklidow.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3007"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dereklidow.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3007"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dereklidow.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3007"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}