10 Roles of an Inspirational Leader


Provide an inspiring vision and strategic alignment, launch a crusade

Help people connect their personal goals to business goals

Make relentless innovation a religion

Encourage entrepreneurial creativity and experimentation

Involve everyone, empower and trust employees

Coach and train your people to greatness

Build teams and promote and teamwork, leverage diversity

Motivate, inspire and energize people, recognize achievements

Encourage risk taking

Make business fun

ENTREPRENEURIAL LEADERSHIP

1. Why Entrepreneurial Leadership?

Rapidly Changing Global Scenario

Knowledge-based Enterprise versus Industrial Enterprise

New Company-Employee Partnership

Shift from Management to Leadership

Entrepreneurial Organization: Challenges, Opportunities, and Strategies

Entrepreneurial Organization: Building Attributes and Delivering Results

2. What Entrepreneurial Leaders Do

Leader as an Entrepreneur: Ten Key Action Roles

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

Being a Leader Means, Above All...

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

General Leadership Attributes

Entrepreneurial Leaders: Specific Attributes

80/20 Thinking

Entrepreneurial Creativity

Five Steps to Entrepreneurial Creativity

4. Energizing, Empowering, and Coaching

Employee Empowerment: Three Levels

Energizing Employees: Four Principles

Effective Coaching: Definition and the Keys to Success

Coaching in the Workplace: List of Activities

Inspiring Employees: Four Key Strategies

5. Opportunity-driven Business Development

Strategy Pyramid vs. Strategy Stretch

Choosing Between Strategy and Opportunity Approach

Corporate Management vs. Venture Management

Strategic Achievement

Organizing Rapid Opportunity Search

Moving with Speed

Ten Steps To Develop Entrepreneurial Staff

6. Leading Innovation

Radical Innovation

Internal and External Ventures

Innovation: The Key Players

Leading Systemic Innovation

Loose-Tight Leadership

Brainstorming: Techniques to Develop Solutions

Tips for Making the Vision a Reality