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Thursday, 5 November 2026
What an intrapreneur should know today, picked from McKinsey, Knowledge at Wharton, Fast Company, Wired, TechCrunch and more
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Why the venture capital mindset matters now
Stanford professor Ilya Strebulaev studies how venture capitalists make decisions. They expect up to 75% of early bets to fail, because a few big wins pay for all the losses. He warns that many large companies will be pushed aside soon unless their leaders start thinking this way.
Intrapreneurship angle: Ask for a set of small bets, not one big project. Agree upfront that most will fail and that this is fine. And pick the team first, then the idea, just as good investors do.
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Shapers and Founders: Scaling without losing soul
McKinsey's Gautam Kumra studied Asia's most successful owner-CEOs for a new book. At Bajaj Finserv, the boss keeps splitting the company into smaller teams and pushes decisions down to staff who deal with customers. These leaders take big bets only when they know they can survive the worst case.
Intrapreneurship angle: Big bets don't have to be reckless. Before you pitch a new idea, work out the worst case and show you can live with it. Small teams that decide close to the customer move faster than any committee.
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A look at how AI is working out in the workplace
Erik Brynjolfsson's team at Stanford studied 51 AI projects that actually paid off. 77% of the hardest problems were not technical. They were about helping people change, fixing data and redesigning how work flows.
Intrapreneurship angle: If your AI idea is stuck, the model is rarely the problem. Spend your time on the people and the process around it. Look at tasks, not whole jobs, to find where AI can free people for better work.
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Intrapreneurship Lab is a platform for nurturing the entrepreneurial spirit within large organisations. It is written by Viktoriya V. Blazheva, a serial intrapreneur who has launched innovations for her employers and their clients over 15+ years of corporate career.
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