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>culture as strategy accelerator or drag

We can all feel the difference when we walk into an environment where people are pumped to be working together, finding new and better ways of doing what needs to be done. We've seen the confidence, passion and focus that enables them to build a future together across boundaries, enthusiastically seeking out opportunities and challenging the status quo. We've also felt the ‘drag' in organizations where more time is spent in politics, playing it safe or blame fixing than on moving long-range plans forward.

The end result of culture drag is inevitable. Talent starts leaving but many people ‘quit and stay'. As organizational vitality drains, strategy execution slows, performance slides and no amount of exhortation to support the strategy seems to energize the organization to try new approaches or push for new gains. As Connie Curran a Health Care researcher says so aptly, “Culture eats strategy for lunch every time.”