The Patient Organization is a book for determined go-getters who won’t settle for anything less than seeing their dreams come to life. WALT BROWN’s favorite metaphor for an Organizational Operating System (OOS) is the waterwheel. Powering human endeavors for millennia, a waterwheel is powerful, patient, and versatile—powered by an endless renewable source. Walt believes that, like a waterwheel, a good OOS captures the source of an organization’s energy and direction, powering your organization. Walt’s Seven Questions and the tools of your OOS are the buckets on that wheel, the fins on the turbine. If you can keep filling those buckets by aligning everyone to yes on the Seven Questions with your OOS, you will harness incredible energy.