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