Excerpts from the article:
“Culture is the unseen engine that drives—or derails—strategic execution. While strategy provides the map, culture is the fuel.”
— The Corporate Governance Institute
An organisation’s strategy is the carefully constructed roadmap that will enable it to reach its goals. Culture defines what organisations value and how employees interact to achieve their goals.
The latter eating the former for breakfast suggests that no matter how much time and energy goes into perfecting the perfect corporate strategy, if the culture takes the firm in the opposite direction, that will win out.
If there was ever a culture-vs strategy tug-of-war, then that competition ended long ago. The two have embraced the best of each other and are being considered alongside each other by competent management. Culture does predominate, but what difference should that make if the goal is to align culture and strategy?
