Imagine an employee working for
20 years in a company, which is
an admired industry leader worldwide. He is faced with a
tough challenge of quitting to start something of his own, although his
career is on the upswing. It seems that the employee in question had
that innovative bent of mind in creating new technologies and that is why
he decides to leave his present job as many of the great ideas were
flushed out in the big company and endless wrangling of budgets and
priorities took precedence without any creative purpose. If we can visualize
this picture, the obvious reason of this person deciding to leave was that
entrepreneurial and innovative cultures were not fostered in the
organization.
Now, if the same person decides to start a company, his
priorities would not only be to create a work place, which would be
humming with innovators having an entrepreneurial spirit, but also where
there is hardly any vestige of the traditional bureaucracy.
Given this goal, with what premises and fundamental beliefs
and core business principles should one start a company? How would
the work be organized? Who would be in control? There are no ideal
companies from which one can replicate the management model of a
radical innovative organization? It is highly probable that one has to invent
a company, breaking all management orthodoxies and create a new
culture. |
