Bottom-Up vs. Top-Down
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A bottom-up approach respects the inherent worth of each person and unleashes creativity, initiative and talents…
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Capabilities
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Koch’s long-term success has come from a focus on building capabilities that enable us to create superior value…
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Closing Gaps
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We seek to close the gap between what we are doing, however good, and what we could be doing if we were fully applying our principle-based framework.
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Contribution Motivated
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Contribution motivated people are energized by continuously trying to improve, innovate, transform and creatively get results – which enables them to live lives of meaning.
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Creative Destruction
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As entrepreneurs create new businesses, products, services, processes, methods or types of organizations, less-effective ones become obsolete…
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Economic Measures
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It is essential for us to have measures that help us understand reality and properly focus our efforts. Economic measures are a subset of the measures we need to be successful. Learn more through “Measures.”
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Empowerment
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When individuals believe they have a gift that can be developed and are free to determine and control their own lives, they are empowered to contribute…
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Experimentation and Experimental Discovery
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To drive creative destruction, we encourage numerous well-designed experiments to determine which new businesses, products, services, processes, methods or type of organization will be successful…
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Headwinds and Tailwinds
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Applying the concept of headwinds and tailwinds helps us transform our ability to succeed in a variety of environments.
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Innovation
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Measures
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Options
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Possessing an option provides the ability or right, but not the obligation, to take an alternative course of action...
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Overcoming Entropy and Bureaucracy
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At Koch, our approach to overcoming entropy is to create and deploy energy and knowledge through our principle-based framework…
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Partner with those who share our vision and values
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Partnerships
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The more people with different and advantaged capabilities join together the more successful they and their organizations will be…
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Principled Entrepreneurship™
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We depend on the entrepreneurial contributions of our employees…
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Satisfy Unmet Needs
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Identifying and satisfying unmet customer needs is essential to successful Principled Entrepreneurship™. Learn more through “Principled Entrepreneurship.”
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Stewardship and Compliance
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The essence of stewardship is recognizing our obligation to always act in a manner that respects the rights of others…
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Time Preference and Long-term Focus
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Virtuous Cycles of Mutual Benefit
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Virtuous cycles of mutual benefit are a never-ending, mutually beneficial process of opportunity generation.
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