I’m sure our collective parents all collectively meant well when they collectively told us that we could “be anything we wanted to be” when we grew up.
Unfortunately, this is a lie.
Once upon a time, in the thick of the American industrial revolution, a highly respected and influential leader is said to have exclaimed:
Why is it that I always get the whole person when what I really want is a pair of hands?
That leader was Henry Ford…
“Culture eats strategy for breakfast.”
I’ve experienced this firsthand, as likely have you. How many times have we seen a “great idea” for our organization get buried… somehow, mysteriously, and at the end reflect back on the process only to realize we have no idea how exactly it died?
Short answer: the culture killed it.