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Management Tip of the Day: Think like entrepreneurs Mar 27th 2012, 16:38 BOSTON | Tue Mar 27, 2012 12:38pm EDT BOSTON (Reuters) - A few simple steps can get your team thinking like entrepreneurs, even within a large, often bureaucratic organization, says Harvard Business Review. The Management Tip of the Day offers quick, practical management tips and ideas from Harvard Business Review and HBR.org (www.hbr.org). Any opinions expressed are not endorsed by Reuters. "Teams in large organizations can easily get tangled in bureaucracy. It takes a long time to execute on projects when waiting for approvals and gathering resources. You can get around this by helping your team members think and act like entrepreneurs. Try doing the following: 1. Experiment. Challenge one or two people on your team to quietly push a project forward without analyzing it. Protect them from those who may question this approach. 2. Broadcast results. Share the results of this experiment with other leaders in your company, and encourage them to support the project. 3. Manage it closely. Throughout the process, ensure that the costs never exceed your organization's acceptable losses, so your team can clearly see the upside of acting fast." Today's management tip was adapted from "New Project? Don't Analyze â€" Act" by Leonard A. Schlesinger, Charles F. Kiefer, and Paul B. Brown. (For the full post and to join the discussion, see: here) Link this Share this Digg this Email Reprints

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