Intrapreneur's Ten Commandments

How do you lead change in a big organization?  Here are 10 insights from Gifford Pinchot’s Intrapreneuring:  Why You Don’t Have to leave the Corporation to Become an Entrepreneur (I snagged Pinchot’s list from another book – Ten Rules for Strategic Innovation by Vijay Govindarajan & Chris Trimble).  

And unless you doubt, Crusade is a corporation with a history of success and defined ways of operating.  These apply very well.

1. Come to work each day willing to be fired
2. Circumvent any orders aimed at stopping your dream
3. Do any job needed to make your project work, regardless of your job description
4. Find people to help you
5. Follow your intuition about the people you choose, and work only with the best
6. Work underground as long as you can – publicity triggers corporate immune mechanism
7. Never bet on a race unless you are running it.
8. Remember it is easier to ask for forgiveness than for permission.
9. Be true to your goals, but be realistic about the ways to achieve them.
10. Honor your sponsors.