A business transformation guru once said: “Culture drives expectations and beliefs. Expectation and beliefs drive behaviour. Behaviour drives habits. Habits create the future.” And that “culture eats strategy for breakfast”, meaning that an organisation with a poor culture cannot execute strategy seamlessly.

Culture is the reason why great organisation’s have sustained success. Look at Apple or Toyota, or any other special company, each has a unique culture of consistent excellence in everything they do.

A company without culture is like a team with members who are strange to one another. You want to achieve the same goal, but you don’t know the values, habits, and behaviour as well as the skills and competence of your colleagues. The result is playing hard individually and not passing the ball to optimize the team synergies to increase the chances of winning the game. Business is a game that calls for a team effort.

Culture is not what is said. It is what is done. When it comes to culture, actions speak louder than words.  So, how would you define your current organisational culture?  Comment below your feedback. Feel free.

Thereafter, go take the culture audit survey to find out what it is. Remember, culture is a long-term project. You need a set of behaviour practised consistently to become habits that ultimately defines corporate culture.

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