| Dominant Values | Financially Controlled | Vigorous Organization |
| Concept of a company: | financial assets | people: a set of stakeholders |
| Primary context of work: | financial economy | physical world |
| Primary purpose: | make money | carry out a social mission |
| Primary stimulus: | competition; “winning” | collaboration; recognition |
| Primary mechanisms: | self-interest; transactions | mutual interest; relationships |
| Primary measurements: | monetary | nonmonetary: space, energy usage, learning rates, etc. |
| Primary objectives: | profit; return on capital | long-term survival and quality of life for all stakeholders |
| Primary beneficiaries: | ownership | all stakeholders; all humanity |
| Governance by: | ownership board | stakeholder board |
| Primary attention on: | financial results; control of profitability | human development; process integrity and improvement |
| Typical performance measures: | growth in market share; asset size, profits | quality of long-term outcomes for all stakeholders |
| Concept of operations: | optimize proift | process-learning laboratory |
| Organization structure: | hierarchy and control systems | flat hierarchy: self-operating, fluid self-adaption to change |
