Week 14 Reading Reflection

Chapter 3 discusses corporate entrepreneurship and chapter 4 discusses social entrepreneurship and the global environment for entrepreneurship. Both of these chapters were very well written and helped give a good explanation of the topics at hand. I was most surprised to find out that rules are set for innovation within a company. Some of these rules include "use formal meetings whenever possible," "reward and promote innovative personnel," and "put people on small teams for future oriented projects."  One question I would ask the author would be whether these rules/guidelines can be applied to any type of company, or if there are specific types of companies, maybe larger ones vs. small businesses, that would benefit more from following these rules for an innovative environment. There was nothing in these two chapters that I disagreed with or where I thought the author was wrong. Everything was very straightforward and the reading made me realize a lot about entrepreneurial environments. One part of the reading that was confusing to me was that one of the corporate innovators commandments was to "come to work each day willing to give up your job for the innovation." I'm not sure this is something that creates a community environment and a truly entrepreneurial environment for the company. It seems that it is contradictory. Employees should not have to give up their job.