Lead Like an Entrepreneur [Hardcover]

Neal Thornberry (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: January 19, 2006

RUN YOUR ORGANIZATION LIKE A RISK-TAKING STARTUP

Featuring in-depth profiles and success stories from some of today’s top companies, including IBM, 3M, Intel, General Electric, and many others, Lead Like an Entrepreneur reveals how to foster innovation at all levels of the corporation and how to employ entrepreneurial leadership qualities to turn ideas into economic value.

“In Lead Like an Entrepreneur, Thornberry has cracked the code on how to replicate the successful behaviors of entrepreneurial leaders….Should be required reading for companies that desire to inject world-class entrepreneurial IQ into the DNA of their company cultures.” --John Kilcullen, President and Publisher, Billboard and former Chairman and CEO of IDG Books

“In an age where sustainable competitive advantage is increasingly difficult to achieve, this book provides a platform upon which to build it….I recommend this book to anyone responsible for developing and improving leadership in their company.” --Peter Wright, Vice President of Human Resources, Refining & Marketing, British Petroleum, PLC

“Developing entrepreneurial leaders is the key to finding hidden value in any organization. Learn how to create or rekindle the entrepreneurial spirit in your organization, and all of your stakeholders will benefit.” --Gary Acinapura, President, Alcoa Exteriors

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RUN YOUR ORGANIZATION LIKE A RISK-TAKING STARTUP

Featuring in-depth profiles and success stories from some of today’s top companies, including IBM, 3M, Intel, General Electric, and many others, Lead Like an Entrepreneur reveals how to foster innovation at all levels of the corporation and how to employ entrepreneurial leadership qualities to turn ideas into economic value.

“In Lead Like an Entrepreneur, Thornberry has cracked the code on how to replicate the successful behaviors of entrepreneurial leaders….Should be required reading for companies that desire to inject world-class entrepreneurial IQ into the DNA of their company cultures.” --John Kilcullen, President and Publisher, Billboard and former Chairman and CEO of IDG Books

“In an age where sustainable competitive advantage is increasingly difficult to achieve, this book provides a platform upon which to build it….I recommend this book to anyone responsible for developing and improving leadership in their company.” --Peter Wright, Vice President of Human Resources, Refining & Marketing, British Petroleum, PLC

“Developing entrepreneurial leaders is the key to finding hidden value in any organization. Learn how to create or rekindle the entrepreneurial spirit in your organization, and all of your stakeholders will benefit.” --Gary Acinapura, President, Alcoa Exteriors

Lead Like An Entrepreneur reveals how to harness the creativity and innovative thinking that is typical of entrepreneurs and use it as a solution to the organizational sluggishness that affects so many established companies. Author Neal Thornberry, faculty director at Babson College--renowned for its entrepreneurial education program--explains how to become an entrepreneurial leader, as well as how to identify, attract, and support this new class of corporate leader. Fostering this type of risk-taking leadership creates substantial benefits because it takes only a few such people within an organization to make significant differences to the top and bottom lines.

Promote the entrepreneurial spirit in your organization by:

Integrating leadership and management within an entrepreneurial framework

Identifying new business opportunities with high growth potential

Focusing human energy on value-creating activities

Identifying and developing the four types of entrepreneurial leaders--explorers, miners, accelerators, and integrators

Attracting and supporting entrepreneurial leaders through focused management development programs

Featuring in-depth profiles and success stories from some of today’s top companies, including IBM, Siemens, 3M, IDG, Sodexho, P&G, Intel, General Electric, and many others, this essential guide will help you overcome bureaucratic impediments and cultivate the leaders of tomorrow, putting your business on a direct path of growth, renewed energy, and spectacular success.

About the Author

Neal Thornberry has spent 10 years exploring the field of entrepreneurial leadership at Babson College’s School of Executive Education, where he currently serves as faculty director.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 288 pages
• Publisher: McGraw-Hill; 1 edition (January 19, 2006)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0072262354
• ISBN-13: 978-0072262353
• Product Dimensions: 9.3 x 6.4 x 1.1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.3 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,343,426 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars Great Book to Stimulate Creative Leadership Thoughts, March 18, 2010

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Jason Parkhouse "nolajason" (Williamsburg, VA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Lead Like an Entrepreneur (Hardcover)

After attending a corporate business course partially taught by Dr. Thornberry, I immediately ordered his book. The principles and ideas contained in both his lectures and his book truly helped me to understand my own thinking in this area and are continuing to aid in my own leadership of my organization. I run an organization that is a startup-type organization within a larger organization and running a small "startup" requires bold, yet sober, thinking. Dr. Thornberry helps the reader to process bold ideas towards executable plans. A great read for those who are looking to challenge the norms that can develop in large organizations.

5.0 out of 5 stars One of the best leadership books, February 4, 2010

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David Hasseloff - See all my reviews

This review is from: Lead Like an Entrepreneur (Hardcover)

Entrepreneurial Leaders are the visionaries and future for the success of large corporations. Today everyone wants to play it safe and follow strategies of other companies within their own industries. Neal Thornberry is from the #1 school in Entrepreneurship and gives specific examples of entrepreneurial leaders within large corporations. Most of these people, are individuals that you and I have not heard of, nor are they CEO's of large companies. They are for the most part everyday managers that were opportunity obsessed and became the catalyst for change within their own respected companies. For people that work in big corporations this book is eye opening and hard to put down, as you start to wonder what you can do to change and add value to your organization. . .

5.0 out of 5 stars Every Company Executive Should Read, February 1, 2009

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KATHERINE EAGO - See all my reviews

This review is from: Lead Like an Entrepreneur (Hardcover)

Lead Like and Entrepreneur should be mandatory reading for executives in both small and large firms so they understand the importance of humility, frugality and creativity to be competitive. The book is extremely well written, combining high level theory with applied statistics and examples.