How Do I Become an Intrapreneur?

Coaching Real Leaders

Harvard Business Review / Muriel Wilkins

Executive, Business/careers, Leadership, Careers, Business/management, Sessions, Hbr, Coaching, Review, Society & Culture, C-suite, Leaders, Harvard, Business, Management

4.8 • 660 Ratings

🗓️ 2 May 2022

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

He’s part of a real estate organization and loves his work but wonders what his future looks like at the company and how his role could grow in the coming decades. Host Muriel Wilkins coaches this leader through how he might use some of his entrepreneurial muscles to shift his career track toward a business leadership role within his current organization.

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0:00.0	HBR Presents.
0:03.0	I'm Yario Wilkins, and this is coaching real leaders, part of the HBR Presents Network.
0:19.0	I'm a longtime executive coach who works with highly successful
0:22.2	leaders who fit a bump in the road. My job is to help them get over that bump by clarifying
0:27.5	their goals and figuring out a way to reach them so that hopefully they can lead with a little
0:32.5	more ease. I typically work with clients over the course of several months, but on this show, we have a one-time coaching meeting focusing on a specific leadership challenge they're facing.
0:48.1	Today's guest is someone will call Charles to protect his confidentiality.
0:52.7	He's been a project manager at a real estate development company
0:55.7	for around five years after spending time in finance and in the public sector and after getting his
1:01.5	MBA. Charles has started thinking about the ways he can develop his niche at the company and move
1:07.2	forward in his career, in part by focusing on a small but growing part of the business.
1:13.0	I really begin to think of it as an intra-opreneurial role.
1:17.4	I've started to really do some research around that and think of myself.
1:22.6	Even though I don't have a separate P&L for this business, I wanted to start thinking like that and start putting
1:29.5	myself into that mindset. And part of what I'm navigating right now and in need of some,
1:36.4	you know, further guidance on is making that mental switch and also this sort of career adjustment
1:43.2	that's perhaps pushing the envelope a little bit
1:46.2	relative to where I am in my career now.
1:49.3	Charles is thinking about the ways that his personal goals can align with the goals of the company.
1:54.4	Even when there isn't a formal path to getting there, he's thinking about how he can be more
1:59.3	entrepreneurial.
2:00.8	I would like to really be running this business unit.
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