How important is culture?

The answer might surprise you...
Peter Drucker gets credit for saying, "In business, culture eats strategy for breakfast."

I agree with Drucker...

What I think he meant by this is that you can spend months-- or years working on your business strategy, but (business) culture permeates everyone and everything it comes in contact with to the point that it's an unstoppable force--for both good and evil.

I sat down with performance, leadership training and culture expert Dr. Michael Gervais who added, "In every organization we belong to, we're (also) apart of a culture. And either you are contributing to that culture or you are allowing it to be what it is."

This really got me thinking deeply about my own personal and business associations including my internal team, client and vendor relationships. I hope you enjoy this episode as much as I did.

Have a listen and let me know what you think!

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