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Yet Green has, like the previous stages, come up with its own breakthrough organizational model, adding three breakthroughs to the previous Orange model. Some of the most celebrated and successful companies of the last decades—companies like Southwest Airlines, Ben & Jerry’s, and The Container Store, to name only few, are run on Green practices

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

Pluralistic-Green strives for bottom-up processes, gathering input from all and trying to bring opposing points of view to eventual consensus. Orange glorifies decisive leadership, while Green insists that leaders should be in service of those they lead.