Culture Eats Strategy: Nucor’s Ken Iverson on Building a Different Kind of Company

Peter Drucker famously remarked that ‘culture eats strategy for breakfast’. So what exactly is the culture of a company, a community or a society? Culture is the expression of a group's level of consciousness; their collective clarity of understanding. And the thoughts, words, actions and artefacts that make sense from that level of understanding.

"Organizational Culture and Leadership" by Ed Schein: “Perhaps the most intriguing aspect of culture as a concept is that it points us to phenomena that are below the surface, that are powerful in their impact but invisible and to a considerable degree unconscious. In that sense, culture is to a group what personality or character is to an in

Culture beats strategy—so much that culture is strategy.