Many words have been penned, and many pages written, about that one sacred, mysterious, and elusive piece of the business enterprise we call “culture”. Culture is to a business what the persona and soul are to an individual. It defines who it is, how it thinks, what it does, and what are and are not the right ways for it to move into the future. When strategies sputter and fail, it is often the culture that either carries the business forward or does not. It is the culture that ends up holding the power of life and death in its hands. Peter Drucker summed it up well when he said “culture eats strategy for breakfast.”
