Strategy Safari, 2nd Edition

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The cultural school: strategy formation as a collective process

“No wonder he never forgets. He has a bubble memory with a storage capacity of 360 megabytes”

"It's all so simple Anjin-san. Just change your concept of the world.'

-Shogun by James Clavell

Hold power up to a mirror and the reverse image you see is culture. Power takes that entity called organization and fragments it; culture knits a collection of individuals into an integrated entity called organization. In effect, one focuses primarily on self-interest, the other on common interest. So too, the literature of what we are calling the cultural school—strategy formation as ...