Culture Eats Strategy: Nucor’s Ken Iverson on Building a Different Kind of Company
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Culture Eats Strategy: Nucor’s Ken Iverson on Building a Different Kind of Company
In 2004, I sat down in my boardroom with our strategy documents and started to dissect them. There were lots of familiar and comfortable terms. We had to be innovative, efficient, customer centric, web 2.0 and all that this entailed. Alas, I suspected these common “memes” were repeated in the strategy documents of other companies because I was pret... See more
Simon Wardley • Highlights From medium.com
I'd go as far as to say that company culture is the only enduring, sustainable form of differentiation. These days, we don't have a monopoly for very long on talent, technology, capital, or any other asset; the one thing that is unique to us is how we choose to come together as a group of people, day in and day out.
Frank Slootman • TAPE SUCKS: Inside Data Domain, A Silicon Valley Growth Story
In the words of business and management guru Peter Drucker, “Culture eats strategy for breakfast.”
Brad Stulberg • Peak Performance: Elevate Your Game, Avoid Burnout, and Thrive with the New Science of Success
we tend to observe financially successful companies, attach attributes (e.g., great leadership, visionary strategy, tight financial controls) to that success, and recommend that others embrace the attributes to achieve their own success.