Entrepreneurial leadership

Roebuck, referencing Roebuck (2004), defines entrepreneurial leadership as 'organizing a group of people to achieve a common goal using proactive entrepreneurial behavior by optimising risk, innovating to take advantage of opportunities, taking personal responsibility and managing change within a dynamic environment for the benefit of organisation'. Roebuck, referencing Roebuck (2004), defines entrepreneurial leadership as 'organizing a group of people to achieve a common goal using proactive entrepreneurial behavior by optimising risk, innovating to take advantage of opportunities, taking personal responsibility and managing change within a dynamic environment for the benefit of organisation'. Such leadership aims to cultivate entrepreneurial individuals and teams that fully leverage their creative potential in creating value for an organisation. Entrepreneurial leadership does this by employing leadership practices that 'develop the ability in employees to self-generate, self-reflect, and self-correct in their workplace'. Entrepreneurial leadership is effectively using the skills associated with successful individual entrepreneurs and applying those within the environment of a larger organisation. This especially means within an organisation where those skills have been lost and replaced with a 'corporate' mindset that focuses on process, systems and risk minimisation rather than on entrepreneurial behaviour.