Sublime

Self-managing organizations naturally provide for exceptional learning opportunities.

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

Schultz formed a strategic hypothesis—the Italian espresso experience could be re-created in America and the public would embrace it.

Pluralistic-Green strives for bottom-up processes, gathering input from all and trying to bring opposing points of view to eventual consensus.

The dominant thinking in business today is Orange. To achieve results, people must be motivated by individual incentives. Orange has no problems if this results in large wage differentials, if these differentials are justified by people’s merits and contributions.

tracked—and then revised or adapted as circumstances dictate.

Green Organizations retain the meritocratic hierarchical structure of Orange, but push a majority of decisions down to frontline workers who can make far-reaching decisions without management approval.