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

Even if profitability is allowed in an industry and the profit model is understood, there are still significant differences in performance, depending on the norms, expectations, and culture that have been created within the organization.

Companies—just like gangs, armies, and nations—are large organizations that rise or fall because of the daily microbehaviors of the human beings that compose them.

In the words of business and management guru Peter Drucker, “Culture eats strategy for breakfast.”