<p>Alternative organizational configurations that propagate discourses of self-expression while also exerting organizational pressure generate tensions that are known as the tensions of new management, which render community-based cooperation particularly difficult. As a consequence, a question arises as to how a common good perspective can help to overcome such tensions by clarifying the conditions for the emergence and development of community-based cooperation. To answer this question, we examine the works by and about Thomas Aquinas, particularly the writings of Charles De Koninck, one of Canada’s most internationally well-known philosophers of the twentieth century. In this conceptual article featuring an illustrative vignette, we highlight two conditions for the emergence of community-based cooperation: (1) the search for an indivisible common good and (2) the aim of a common good that is diffusive of itself—that is, causal, communicable, and superabundant. We posit that the extension of this cooperation is only possible if it is commensurate with both the indivisible and diffusive characters of the common good. Moreover, we argue that these conditions are sufficiently precise and objective to enable members of organizations to avoid the exacerbated forms of individualism and collectivism underlying the new management ideology.</p>