Chapter 9. Entrepreneurial Leadership: Building Capacity for Speed, Risk, and Continuous Innovation

Joel R. DeLuca

This chapter proposes a working model[1] as a guiding approach and framework for placing significant issues related to the subject together and in perspective. The model was carefully crafted to be simple and powerful. It attempts to provide enough background to pinpoint a key emerging pattern of behavior common among those seen as successful entrepreneurial leaders. The purpose of this chapter is to stimulate thinking so that others can frame their own sense of entrepreneurial leadership.

Historical Background

The ancient Greeks had a word, pou sto, meaning a place to stand, a base, or a set of principles from which to operate. ...

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