Chapter 9 Corporate Entrepreneurs
Corporate entrepreneurs live their business: “What’s happened to my baby today?”
Corporate entrepreneurs have something to prove. They disrupt industries because they believe in a better way of doing things. They excel in spotting breakthrough opportunities and making them a reality. We feature Sir Martin Sorrell, who founded WPP, now one of the world’s largest advertising and marketing businesses, and describes the experience as “the closest that a man can get to giving birth”.
Extracted from The Secrets of CEOs, © Steve Tappin and Andy Cave, 2008 |