We've all been there. Feeling like cogs in the wheel and wondering when the day would end, so we could go home and do more enjoyable stuff.
The Challenge: Being entrepreneurial at work is often misunderstood to be an oxymoron. If I had to be entrepreneurial, I mean, why would I want to do it for someone else's co.? Good question.
The Key: Being entrepreneurial is more a mind-set than a set of actions alone. What we do is very important, but what we think is utterly critical.
3 Practical Ideas:
Make it personal: The moment we focus our energy and our reasoning on our team, our boss, or the organization - we have squandered our power and resources. What makes work feel like our own is when we let ourselves be the key person driving our career. And one bad appraisal shouldn't change that dramatically! Entrepreneurship begins in the mind. Make your work something to cherish. A work of art, something you can take real pride in.
Be Passionate: What's work without a healthy dollop of passion. What helps you immensely with tip no. one is to feel that passion for doing a great job. Mind you, am not asking you to be passionate about your co. or every HR policy ever made. What level of excellence can you contribute to your team's objectives? Say no to shoddy work and do what you do so well that your boss and your boss's boss has to sit up and take notice. Now that's acting like an entrepreneur because those who toe the line never get noticed. Believe me.
Show Results: When you run your own enterprise, there is a hunger to make things happen. What can you do at work that will show results? Take a paper and a pen and note down the 'useless' parts of your everyday work. Think of how you can waste the least amount of time on them. What are the real 'high value' and 'high impact' parts of your work - and how can you focus on them more? Results speak volumes. The rest becomes easy.
Once you act more like an owner of your work and less like a paid employee to get to someplace vague, life will change. But more importantly, how others treat you will change dramatically. Are you up to the challenge?
Coming up next: Step 7: Forge unimaginable tie-ups with competitors
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