“Culture eats strategy for breakfast,” read a projected slide at Compliance Week’s 2023 National Conference—a nod to renowned management consultant Peter Drucker, who coined the expression.
Corporate culture might be commonly considered “cute” and “fuzzy,” but it is a slippery monster, nonetheless. It holds the potential to wreak havoc on a negligent organization that fails to nurture it. While most organizations readily agree culture matters, too often companies punt on it in practice because it is elusive and not metric-friendly.
