Are the parts of your organization working together? Alignable - To adjust the parts of an organization in order to create a Mutual Benefit culture that will produce exceptional innovation, efficiency, employee retention, and profit.Marc Gilenson Corporate Entrepreneurial Leadership is the key Corporate Entrepreneurial leadership is...

Strong Corporate Entrepreneurial Leaders embrace the new autonomy The independence and freedom being experienced by employees at this time is creating a transformation to the new way of working.  Companies are finding that strong leaders that do not fear employees being unfettered from the physical office, disengaged from office politics and...

Today’s workplace is a made more complex due to the move to a more virtual environment.  Workers will adapt to the variables that they come across every day.  This adaptation may take the form of ad hoc changes to process without changing the documentation or even sharing that change with their group.  Workers will use the knowledge they...

“Corporate Entrepreneurs do new things or do things that are already being done in a more efficient and mutually beneficial way. Managers and executives oversee the status quo, corporate entrepreneurs produce ideas and maintain a commitment to pursuing new opportunities, creating new units or businesses, innovativeness in products, services and...

THE S.M.A.R.T. PLATFORM The S.M.A.R.T. Platform was developed so companies will become better, help their leaders become better, run better projects, create better processes, and help every employee become better.  The S.M.A.R.T. Platform includes the three idea attributes wisdom, understanding and knowledge, while the five implementation...

Are you assessing processes the way you always did? The Substitution Myth The idea that new technology can be introduced as a simple substitution of what was happening before and preserving the process and achieving improved results, is a costly oversimplification and perpetuates the substitution myth. This is the reason that so many...

by Marc Gilenson Many companies have a vision statement. However, if you ask most of their employees, you will find that they don’t know the statement.  Even worse is that if you ask them how they apply the concepts in your vision statement to their everyday business life, you will get a “deer in the headlights” look!  If you...

by Marc Gilenson The real challenge today is to change our way of thinking...not just our goals, processes, systems, policies, and view of the end-state.  We need the imagination to grasp the immense promise and challenge of the inter-connected organization we have created.  The future lies with more cooperation, more interaction between...

Your employees, teams, departments, company, vendors and customers are all connected in more ways than most of us realize. Together they make up your interconnected business environment. It can be overwhelming. Take a deep breath What is a corporate entrepreneur to do? Take a deep breath and look at yourself first. Make sure that you...

Every business at one time or another has experienced a perfect state of existence. Entrepreneurial start-ups experience a perfect state when they start their business. Mid-sized companies experienced that perfect state when they first streamlined their processes to increase productivity. Corporate America experiences the perfect state when they...