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Principle Based Management™

Principle Based Management is a framework based on the principles of human progress that enables individuals and organizations to succeed long term by creating superior value for others.

 

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New to Principle Based Management?

PBM Quick Start can help! Quick Start offers both on-demand and facilitated learning options for a handful of PBM principles that are core to everything we do.

 
 
 
 

Becoming a Principle-Driven Leader is here!

 
 
 
 

Ready to dive in?

 
Becoming a Principle-Driven Leader offers a practical, story-driven, lifelong-learning platform that helps anyone apply principles to solve problems and build an enduring business and life.
 
 
 
 
 
 

Using AI to Sharpen Your Thinking

 
Principle Companion and AskFred can help you apply marginal analysis. Try these prompts:
 
  • “Help me de-average my role as ____. Which of my recurring activities create the most value, and which am I continuing out of habit or sunk cost?” Note: Try it in Copilot! 
  • “Assume my time, budget, and resources are fixed for the next quarter. Here is my current plan: ____. Help me come up with ways to maximize value and not just activities."
  • For supervisors: “Here is what my team is responsible for and how we measure success: ____. What assumptions about our work, priorities, or measures of success should we challenge if we wanted to create significantly more value?” 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Fundamentals

Explore the essential elements of Principle Based Management.

 

Principles

We strive to identify, understand and apply time-tested principles that promote human flourishing and progress.

Five Dimensions

The five dimensions provide an organizing structure — or framework — for the many principles of human progress.

 

Applying PBM

Being guided by principles often results in us taking a different approach to many common business or organizational practices.