Successfully fostering and managing intrapreneurship involves
A) Discouraging bootlegging activities.
B) Focusing on one very large, innovative project.
C) Rewarding risk taking.
D) Spreading intrapreneurial efforts over many small-scale projects.
E) Minimizing aggressiveness with competitors.

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Companies should tolerate some bootlegging, and some even encourage it. The most dangerous risk in intrapreneurship is the risk of relying too heavily on a single project. Organizations also court failure when they spread their entrepreneurial efforts over too many projects, where each effort may be too small in scale. A firm that is entrepreneurial tends to challenge competitors directly and intensely. Skunkworks are effective in part because the risk takers have the opportunity to earn large rewards.

Successfully Fostering and Managing Intrapreneurship Involves