Comparison of Entrepreneurs, Intrapreneurs and Traditional Managers

I am    authentic .... …..and highly motivated ….... I can accept small risks and I want to lead and I can’t accept too many instructions from others! My eyes will be scorching and sending smokes signals right away…. I can work in any environment and adaptable to any situation. I am  not easily intimidated….....I  can work for more than 10 hours a day. I am tough and so resilient….... I can  accept failures  and I will bounce back and never give up too easily! I try to be innovative and creative in order to sustain my business and differentiate from others. I am an entrepreneur!

The above  mentioned are  the  common  characteristics  that you should posses in order to remain successful in your entrepreneurial activities. 

Wan Rosnah

Which one of these categories best describe you? Check below!

	Traditional Managers	Entrepreneurs	Intrapreneurs
Primary	Promotion and other	Independence,	Independence and ability to
motives	traditional, corporate	opportunity	advance in the corporate rewards
	rewards, such as office,	to create, and money
	staff, and power
Time	Short term- meeting	Survival and achieving	Between entrepreneurial and
orientation	quotas,	5-to 10 year growth of	traditional managers, depending
	and budgets, weekly,	growth
	monthly, quarterly, and	business	on urgency to meet self-imposed
	the annual planning
	horizon		and corporate timetable
Activity	Delegates and	Direct involvement	Direct involvement more
	supervises
	more than direct		than  delegation
	involvement
Risk	Careful	Moderate risk taker	Moderate risk taker
Status	Concerned about	Not concerned about	Not concerned about traditional
	status symbols	status symbols	status symbols - desires
			independence
Failure and	Tries to avoid mistakes	Deals with mistakes	Attempts to hide risky projects
mistakes	and surprises	and failures	from view until ready
Decisions	Usually agrees with	Follows dream with	Able to get others to agree to
	those in	decision	help achieve dream
	in upper management
Who serves	Others	Self and customers	Self, customers, and sponsors
Family history	Family members	Entrepreneurial	Entrepreneurial small - business,
	worked for large	small business,	professional, or farm background
		professional,
	organizations	or farm background
Relationship	Hierarchy as basic	Transactions and	Transactions within hierarchy
with others	relationship	deal making as
		basic relationship
Source:Pinchot, Intrapreneuring (New York: Harper & Row, 1985). pp. 54 - 56.