Better Humans, Better Performance: Driving Leadership, Teamwork, and Culture with Intentionality

ORGANIZATIONAL CULTURE

Growing a culture requires a good storyteller. Changing a culture requires a persuasive editor.¹

—RYAN LILLY

POWER OVER STRATEGY, PROCESS, TEAMWORK, AND STRUCTURE

Culture eats strategy for breakfast, process for lunch, teamwork for an appetizer, and structure for dinner. Clearly, this doesn’t diminish the importance of strategy, process, teamwork, and structure. However, more than any strategy, metric, or asset, it’s an organization’s culture that will act as an accelerator that stimulates action or will act as a break that restrains performance.

While metrics are concrete and specific, a culture is abstract and general. ...