This document outlines the seven habits of highly effective organizations: 1. Trust people - Valve Software and Morning Star trust their employees and embrace failure. 2. Tolerate and embrace failure - Many successful people like Edison, Jordan, and Einstein have failed numerous times but learned from failures. 3. Be brutally honest with yourself - Organizations should have alignment and autonomy, not force conformity or allow chaos. 4. Allow autonomy at all levels - Like the German military doctrine of "mission command," organizations should set clear goals but allow flexibility. 5. Think big, stay small - Companies like W.L. Gore stay small while thinking big through decentralized operations. 6. Simplify