Contents

1. Why Entrepreneurial Leadership?

Rapidly Changing Global Scenario

Knowledge-based Enterprise versus Industrial Enterprise

Entrepreneurial Organization: Challenges, Opportunities, and Strategies

Entrepreneurial Organization: 10 Characteristics and 5 Benefits

Entrepreneurial Leadership: Building Attributes and Delivering Results

2. What Entrepreneurial Leaders Do

Leader as an Entrepreneur: Ten Key Action Roles

Leadership-Management Synergy

Strategic Leadership: Generic Role and Main Functions

Results-based Leadership

The Four E's of Leadership

Why Change Fails

The Eight Stage Change Process

Making Big Changes: Ten Questions to Answer

3. Entrepreneurial Leadership Attributes

Leader as an Entrepreneur: Talent, Temperament, and Technique Synergy

Entrepreneurial Leaders: Specific Attributes

Entrepreneurial Creativity

Be Different and Make a Difference

Creative Problem Solving: Turning Problems Into Opportunities

Cross-functional Excellence

4. Inspiring, Energizing, and Empowering Employees

The Tao of Employee Empowerment

Lessons from Jack Welch: Energize Others

10 Roles of Inspirational Leaders

Freedom To Fail

Building a Team Culture

Ten Steps To Develop Entrepreneurial Staff

5. Opportunity-driven Business Development

Lessons from Jack Welch: See Change as an Opportunity

Strategy Pyramid vs. Strategy Stretch

Choosing Between Strategy and Opportunity Approach

Corporate Management vs. Venture Management

Strategic Achievement

Organizing Rapid Opportunity Search

Fast Company

Fast Decision Making: Establishing Corporate Guiding Principles

6. Leading Innovation

Create a Culture of Questioning  

Radical Innovation

The Jazz of Innovation: 11 Practice Tips

Loose-Tight Leadership

Tips for Making the Vision a Reality

Entrepreneurial Leadership Defined

In the increasingly turbulent and competitive environment business firms face today, a new type of "entrepreneurial" leader distinct from other behavioral forms of managerial leadership is required. Entrepreneurial leadership is leadership that is based on the attitude that the leader is self-employed. Leaders of this type:

• take initiative and act as if they are playing a critical role in the organization rather than a mostly important one and energize their people,

• demonstrate entrepreneurial creativity, search continuously for new opportunities and pursue them,

• take risk, venture into new areas and provide strategic direction and inspiration to their people,

• take responsibility for the failures of their team, learn from these failures and use them as a step to ultimate success and strategic achievement.

Entrepreneurial leadership involves instilling the confidence to think, behave and act with entrepreneurship in the interests of fully realizing the intended purpose of the organization to the beneficial growth of all stakeholders involved.

Key Benefits

In the new era of rapid changes and knowledge-based enterprises, managerial work becomes increasingly a leadership task. Leadership is the primary force behind successful change. Leaders empower employees to act on the vision. They execute through inspiration and develop implementation capacity networks through a complex web of aligned relationships.

Entrepreneurial leadership is not a position, it is a process. The entrepreneurial leader takes responsibility to assist the organization in creating such conditions so that, instead of being controlled, the organization generates its own order and responds creatively to the environment. This role is not only more productive for the organization, it is liberating for the leader as well. By helping to unleash the creative potential of their organizations, entrepreneurial leaders are unleashing their own.

... and much, much more!