Sublime

In Orange Organizations, strategy and execution are king. In Green Organizations, the company culture is paramount.

Many factors play a role in bringing these goals into harmony, but one has a preeminent position: the ratio of junior, middle-level, and senior staff in the firm’s organization, referred to here as the firm’s leverage.

and at start-ups, especially in the early stages of growth, the role may be played by the founder.

Rather than establish firmwide goals for margins, productivity, or leverage, firms should hold each practice (or partner) accountable for a profit per partner target and let the practice (or partner) figure out the best mixture of margin, productivity, and leverage necessary to achieve this goal.

To practice a discipline is to be a lifelong learner on a never-ending developmental path.

Another managing partner, well informed about a variety of professions, observes that “professional service firms are managed in one of two ways: badly or not at all.”

A new metaphor: organizations as living systems

Obviously Reich’s influence went way beyond just me. Alongside other authors such as Anthony Giddens[411] and Jeremy Rifkin[412], he was instrumental in crafting the message of a new generation of progressive leaders that the era of the steady, lifelong job was over. In a more global and unstable world, lifelong education was the new key to