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

Rather than discrete categories, the expertise, experience, and efficiency labels are obviously meant to describe only points along a spectrum of practice

quick-hitting employee surveys to anonymous social networks and even rating apps for meetings and meeting organizers.

In every organization, there is a natural tension between the need for expertise and the need to let frontline people make decisions.

In a broad generalization, it is safe to say that, in developed societies, Impulsive-Red Organizations persist only at the fringes of legal activity. Conformist-Amber is still heavily present in government agencies, the military, religious organizations, and public school systems. Achievement-Orange is clearly the dominant paradigm of business corp

The optimal number of design principles — if you want them to be in use — is between three and five.

if the firm is to meet its economic goals, it will require that seniors and managers are engaged in billable work for 75 percent of their time, and juniors 90 percent.

when it comes to well-being, projects can trump traits.