My Week 4 Reading Reflection

In Chapter 3, the biggest surprise for me was the statement that previously, researchers had thought entrepreneurship and bureaucracies to be mutually exclusive and incompatible with one another. This surprised me because now it seems so common that they go hand-in-hand when the situation warrants it. It only seems logical that in a large company, you would need entrepreneurs working within it to come up with new innovations and keep the company progressive.

I was confused by some of "The Corporate Innovator's Commandments," such as the one that mandates for the worker to ignore their job description entirely and do any job they deem necessary for their innovation to work. This is more leeway than I would have imagined is given to employees, although that is wonderful that they are given such free reign to experiment with ideas.

If I could ask the author two questions, I would first ask, "What do you believe to be the greatest benefit of merging entrepreneurship and bureaucracies?" I would also ask, "What have your experiences with this sort of company been?" I think it would be very beneficial to hear the answer to both of these questions.

In this chapter, I did not encounter anything that I particularly disagreed with or that stood out to me as seeming incorrect.

xoxo The EntrepreTraveler