Are You an Intrapreneur?

1. Does your desire to make things work better occupy as much of your time as fulfilling your duty to maintain them the way they are?
2. Do you get excited about what you are doing at work?
3. Do you think about new business ideas while driving to work or taking a shower?
4. Can you visualize concrete steps for action when you consider ways to make a new idea happen?
5. Do you get in trouble from time to time for doing things that exceed your authority?
6. Are you able to keep your ideas under cover, suppressing your urge to tell everyone about them until you have tested them and developed a plan for implementation?
7. Have you successfully pushed through bleak times when something you were working on looked like it might fail?
8. Do you have more than your fair share of both fans and critics?
9. Do you have a network of friends at work whom you can count on for help?
10. Do you get easily annoyed by others’ incompetent attempts to execute portions of your ideas?
11. Can you consider trying to overcome a natural perfectionist tendency to do all the work yourself and share responsibility for your ideas with a team?
12. Would you be willing to give up some salary in exchange for the chance to try out your business idea if the rewards for success were adequate?

If you answered yes more times than no, then chances are you are already behaving like an intrapreneur.

Source: Intrapreneuring: Why You Don’t Have to Leave the Corporation to Become an Entrepreneur by Gifford Pinchot (Harper & Row, 1985)

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