The Fake Battle Between Culture and Strategy

The other day I came across yet another article/post declaring that “Culture eats strategy for breakfast” (or lunch, or dinner, or afternoon tea…). I tweeted it out, copying my friend and colleague, Jeff De Cagna, since he and I have been discussing...

Culture Codes Go Mainstream

Four years ago, Netflix CEO Reed Hastings posted a slide deck about their culture. It was originally created as an internal document, but he shared it, and it’s now been viewed several million times. The deck (and Netfilx’s culture) actually get their own...

There Is No Strategy Without Angst

Roger Martin has a great article in the current Harvard Business Review about how strategic planning is a lie. I think it’s great, of course, because I’ve hated strategic planning for years now, but I think Martin does one of the best jobs so far in...
Jamie Notter