“Culture Eats Strategy for Breakfast”
From as far back perhaps as our first fascinating high school biology class we couldn't help pondering "the chicken or the egg". We later learned that this dilemma and conclusion extended well beyond biology.Then came "nature or nurture", psychology 101, and the plot thickened. There was something to sink our ideologically hungry, pre-adult teeth into at last. If you were anything like me, it took almost a decade to formulate a well balanced opinion giving them both a fair shake.The strategic business world seems to have been grappling with its own existential dilemma, "strategy or culture". My still favorite quote [...]