By Liz Cassidy

Courtesy of Anthill Magazine

Conventional wisdom states that entrepreneurs are unmanageable and, thus, make poor employees. While it’s true that salaried entrepreneurs can prove a handful, the most successful companies in the world know the value of entrepreneurs and have systems in place to attract and harness them company-wide. Liz Cassidy looks at how companies can develop the entrepreneurs within their ranks and how entrepreneurs can develop their ideas within a corporate environment.

Can an entrepreneur flourish in a corporate environment or is it just too risky to employ them? An associate and I asked variations on this question recently in an online business forum and were flooded with responses. I was surprised by the passion the questions ignited, with about 60 percent strongly supporting the statement and the rest equally as passionate that an “internal entrepreneur” could not successfully fit within a corporate environment.

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