Chapter 5

Integrate Organizational Culture with Strategy

Who needs goals, when you can develop new good habits. Don’t focus on achieving any goals. Instead, aim to develop the behavior that creates long-lasting habits and wields the results you want as a byproduct.

—Jeff Boss

While a CEO’s commitment is critical in an organization’s transformation journey, it is also important that people are culturally ready to support the implementation of the strategy. In Chapter 1, I shared an approach for undertaking an organizational culture assessment to understand the current state and to develop a shared vision by engaging leaders at all levels to agree on the desired future state. In this chapter, we will learn about a model that helps to integrate ...

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