Are you serious about hiring staff who put in 25 hours a day? Then, go for intrapreneurs. 

They are crazy. They are motivated. They are skilled. They handle your business like their personal pet projects and never give up until they get the desired results. Have you ever had a staff, who was crazy and passionate enough to take the backdoor whenever the front door was inaccessible? They are not necessarily breaking rules, but are adept at proffering creative solutions.

Steve Jobs described the practice of his Macintosh team as ‘Intrapreneurship'. They were folks who, though worked within a successful organisation, operated with the ethics of the garage days when the big dream began. As entrepreneurs within an organisation, they were lateral thinkers who operated in terrains where logic failed and never hesitated to switch hats to meet with the demands of the time.

In periods of economic uncertainties, you need intrapreneurs to grow your business. From Google, to Sun Microsystems, to Sony, companies now understand the importance of recruiting intrapreneurs into enabling environments. And they have profited from the move. 

The popular Gmail with generous capacity, the first mail to successfully incorporate search features, developed by Paul Buchheit, was a product of Google's 20% time policy (employees spend 80% of their work hours on their job function, and 20% on personal pet projects). Later, Marissa Mayer, addressing the Yahoos, told them it really was a 100/20% policy, because Googlers put in extra hours to achieve excellence. Now, that is what only intrapreneurs can do. 

But what should you do with intrapreneurs? Put them on specific projects; no bar holds, because they are not good with taking orders and would not defer to anyone. Let them explore their creativity in a delayered environment, where everyone is their own boss. The reward is generous.

 

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