Revisiting the Intrapreneur's Journey
This article was first published on LinkedIn . In 2018, Jeff Zias and I published “The Intrapreneur’s Journey – Empowering Employees to Drive Growth”. The inspiration for writing the book came from our years of leading innovation at Intuit and learning from innovation leaders at other companies. We were passionate about sharing these important insights: Large companies don’t have to be stodgy and mired in bureaucracy. In fact, a large company can develop a culture of innovation that continually drives growth. A culture of innovation involves empowering frontline employees to innovate by giving them time to work on their own ideas. Empowered employees are engaged employees and will often attest to high job satisfaction and doing “the best work of their lives”. For too many people, work is just a means of making a living. It is a necessary drudgery. But in companies with a culture of innovation, employees are passionate about their work and eagerly look forward to tackling t...