You notice that customers keep asking for a service your company doesn’t offer. You have an idea for how it could work, and you can already picture who would use it. Do you pitch it to your team and see if the company will back it, or test whether customers would pay for it as an independent business? That choice gets to the heart of intrapreneurship vs. entrepreneurship. An intrapreneur takes the lead on a new product, service, process, or venture within an existing organiza

Few concepts have made their way from academic psychology into the lexicon of the boardroom as quickly as psychological safety. The term was coined in its modern sense by Harvard professor Amy Edmondson, who defines it as “a shared belief held by members of a team that it is safe to take interpersonal risks” (e.g., asking a question, admitting a mistake, or challenging a decision) (Edmondson, 1999). A landmark study of 180 teams by Google, called Project Aristotle, found some