Can big corporations not have leaders? The largest toy companies are managed, not led, by competent managers, not dynamic leaders.
If a product falls behind three weeks in the development cycle, the designers in the trenches inform management to push the intro back a year and risk losing the entire thing.
This was not the case at Tyco years ago where the charismatic Dick Gray would let his people know in no uncertain terms – they either get it done or he would find someone that would.
Can major corporations harness that entrepreneurial leadership force that already exists for them internally? Their own "intra-preneurs" should be thusly rewarded by these corporations for success and held accountable for failures, but aren't.
If a large corporation could compete with the aggressive passion of an upcoming entrepreneurial company – whew! What would that look like? Perhaps they would look more like Apple, under the stewardship of Steve Jobs.