As Turkey begins to recover from some of the worst effects of the global economic downturn, it could be time to examine how a new brand of entrepreneur could help to sustain the revival of confidence.
According to Johan Stael von Holstein of the
global business incubator IQube, speaking at the World Entrepreneurship
Forum, “Every problem will eventually be solved by an entrepreneur.” But
given the fact that so many of our current problems were generated by
major international corporations, how can entrepreneurship seriously be
considered a solution to them? The answer, according to the dean of the
EM Lyon business school, Patrice Houdayer, lies in the development of
the entrepreneurial spirit within the structures of these very
corporations.
“I believe that entrepreneurship and entrepreneurial leadership, in particular, are possibly more important within large businesses than they are within smaller companies,” he says. “In uncertain times like these, large organizations need to be as flexible as possible, ready to change and develop rapidly to accommodate the shifting needs of their customers and the market as a whole. But many only pay lip service to ‘intrapreneurship,’ the internal version of classic entrepreneurship, or even stifle it, because they fear losing control.”
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Author: MATT SYMONDS
