Entrepreneurial

• Primary goal is growth
• Bold leaps forward
• Active search for new opportunities
• Power centralized in one person
• Strategy from single, integrated vision that is "sold" downward

            Example: R. R. Donnelley, Enron, Worldcom

Adaptive

• Clear goals do not exist
• No single vision
• Power divided, CEO has limited authority
• Strategy through small steps and incremental decisions
• Reactive solutions to problems

            Example: Arthur D. Little, Time Life (and more recently, AOL/Time Warner)

Planning

• Goals articulated as clearly as possible
• Power divided, CEO has significant authority
• Strategy through systematic and careful analysis
• Rational approaches predominate
• Execution planned in detail

 Source: Garvin, David A. (2002). General management: Processes and action, text and cases (pp. 32-33). New York: McGraw-Hill.