The 5 Dimensions
Key PBM Terms
Real World Scenarios
Koch Values
Decision Making
100

This dimension focuses on continual learning, innovation, and transformation.

What is Knowledge?

100

This principle guides us to seek win-win relationships with employees, customers, and suppliers.

What is Mutual Benefit?

100

An employee shares knowledge with a teammate to help solve a problem. Which value is demonstrated?

What is Knowledge?

100

This value is about always acting honestly and with courage.

What is Integrity?

100

This tool helps clarify who is responsible and has the authority to make a decision.

What is Role, Responsibilities, and Expectations or RRE?

200

This dimension guides the division of labor so everyone can contribute most to long-term success.

What is Comparative Advantage?

200

This principle contrasts with a rule-based approach by emphasizing universal truths that guide behavior rather than rigid procedures.

What is Principle-Based Management?

200

An employee proposes discontinuing a successful product to focus on a new, more innovative solution. Which principle is being demonstrated?

What is Creative Destruction?

200

This value encourages us to be lifelong learners and develop our gifts and passions.

What is Self-Actualize?

200

This framework is used to analyze the situation, behavior, and outcome of an event.

What is SBO?

300

This dimension directs the organization to select opportunities that maximize long-term success.

What is Vision?

300

This can increase demand, weaken competitive forces and/or lower costs. 

What are Tailwinds?

300

A team member respectfully challenges a proposed solution to ensure the best outcome. Which value is this?

What is Challenge?

300

This value is about treating everyone with honesty, dignity, and embracing diverse perspectives.

What is Respect?

300

This tool is used to weigh options and clarify who has the right to make a final call.

What is the Decision Making Framework or DMF?

400

This dimension focuses on the culture and personal attributes necessary for long-term success.

What is Virtue and Talents?

400

This can destroy demand, intensify competitive forces and/or increase costs.

What is Headwinds?

400

A team resists complacency by regularly questioning if their current processes are optimal, even when results are strong. Which principle is this?

What are Closing Gaps?

400

This value encourages us to create virtuous cycles by becoming a preferred partner to all stakeholders.

What is Principled Entrepreneurship™?

400

 This concept helps teams organize work so each person contributes where they have the greatest impact.

What is Comparative Advantage?

500

This dimension ensures everyone is contribution motivated and committed to achieving results in line with Our Values.

What is Motivation?

500

This principle requires us to respect not only our own assets but also those entrusted to us by others, forming the foundation of stewardship and mutual benefit.

What are Property Rights?

500

An employee finds deep fulfillment by collaborating across teams, combining their unique talents with others to achieve results neither could accomplish alone. Which two principles are demonstrated?

What are Life of Meaning and Synergy?

500

This value is demonstrated when an employee takes personal responsibility for the outcomes of their decisions, good or bad.

What is Accountability?

500

This triangle helps teams analyze the relationship between what something costs, what it’s sold for, and the value it provides.

What is the CPV Triangle?

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