“Culture eats strategy for breakfast” management guru Peter Drucker once said. No matter how well thought out your competitive strategy is, if the people in your organisation aren’t ready, able and willing to put it into action, it’s worthless. To further illustrate the effect of culture on strategy, General George S Patton once declared that “a good plan violently executed now is better than a perfect plan executed next week"
Now, none of this is to suggest you should run your organisation like a milit...