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2016 | OriginalPaper | Chapter

7. Leading for Entrepreneurship

Authors : Annika Steiber, Sverker Alänge

Published in: The Silicon Valley Model

Publisher: Springer International Publishing

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Abstract

Leading an entrepreneurial firm is quite different from managing a conventional company. This chapter explains key considerations for guiding, supporting, and inspiring teams of entrepreneurial people to produce ongoing innovation. An essential requirement is to provide direction and feedback without micromanaging or telling employees how they should solve problems. The roles of three types of leaders are discussed: top leadership, founder entrepreneurs, and mid-level leaders (formerly called “middle management”). Further, the chapter examines many ingredients of leadership, from communication and incentives to new approaches for bottom-up creativity and decision-making.

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Footnotes
1
Steiber and Alänge (2013b).
 
2
Barnard mentioned, for example: developing and maintaining a system of communication through a selection of people and the offering of incentives; securing an informal organization; maintenance of morals, supervision and control; education, training, and formulating and defining purposes and objectives of the organization (Barnard 1938), pp. 215–234.
 
3
Focus on product excellence is one of the key cultural attributes described in Chap. 6.
 
4
Steiber (2014), p. 73.
 
5
Steiber (2014), pp. 65–66.
 
6
Schmidt and Rosenberg (2014), pp. 217–219.
 
8
Ibid.
 
9
Schmidt and Rosenberg (2014), p. 65.
 
10
Steiber (2014).
 
11
Barnard (1938), p. viii.
 
12
Shiba et al. (1993).
 
13
Alänge (1994).
 
14
Steiber (2014).
 
15
Steiber and Alänge (2013a).
 
16
Schmidt and Rosenberg (2014), pp. 175–176.
 
17
For example, Musk’s presentation of the Tesla Powerwall was posted on YouTube in May 2015 and had over 2.6 million views in 3 months (Musk 2015) https://​www.​youtube.​com/​watch?​v=​yKORsrlN-2k.
The video drew much attention—for example, Carmine Gallo in Forbes commented that it is designed like a TED talk which, in 18 min, “offers leaders a blueprint for how to launch a product.” (Gallo 2015) http://​www.​forbes.​com/​sites/​carminegallo/​2015/​05/​04/​teslas-elon-musk-lights-up-social-media-with-a-ted-style-keynote/​.
 
18
Steiber (2014).
 
19
Schmidt and Rosenberg (2014), p. 177.
 
20
Ibid. p. 178.
 
21
Ibid. p. 222.
 
22
Grove (1996).
 
24
Our own interview data from Merck in 1988.
 
25
George W. Merck in 1950, quoted in Collins and Porras 1994(2002), p. 48.
 
27
Schmidt and Rosenberg (2014), p. 214.
 
28
Ibid, p. 228.
 
29
Ibid.
 
30
Steiber (2014), p. 69.
 
33
Steiber and Alänge (2013a).
 
34
Amabile and Kramer (2011), p. 72.
 
35
Ibid. p. 76.
 
36
Ibid. p. 77.
 
37
Quoted in Steiber (2014), pp. 63–64.
 
38
Steiber (2014).
 
39
Ibid, pp. 67–68.
 
40
Isaacson (2011).
 
41
Schmidt and Rosenberg (2014).
 
42
Originating in the Toyota Production System, andon is the way line workers can stop the production by pulling a cord, in order to make everyone focus on finding the root cause of a problem before more waste is produced.
 
43
Schmidt and Rosenberg (2014).
 
44
Steiber and Alänge (2013a).
 
45
Schmidt and Rosenberg (2014), pp. 49–51.
 
46
Ibid.
 
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Metadata
Title
Leading for Entrepreneurship
Authors
Annika Steiber
Sverker Alänge
Copyright Year
2016
Book
The Silicon Valley Model

Print ISBN: 978-3-319-24919-3

Electronic ISBN: 978-3-319-24921-6

Copyright Year: 2016

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-24921-6_7