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  • June 10, 2022
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  • Harvard Business Review (website)

Does Your Company’s Culture Reinforce Its Strategy and Purpose?

By: Hubert Joly
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Abstract

Good strategy has traditionally been seen as the key to business success. More recently, purpose has become an essential element of doing business. But something else is missing: culture, or the essential elements of how an organization and its employees behave, as well as its governing beliefs and principles. And yet, culture often receives less attention than purpose and strategy. The author thinks of purpose, strategy, and culture as a triangle: Each angle connects with and shapes the other two, and if one changes, the other two must evolve and adjust to maintain balance and shape, or the triangle breaks and falls apart. He presents three types of levers companies can use to profoundly shape an effective culture and allow their strategy to come to fruition.

Keywords

Success; Mission and Purpose; Organizational Culture; Corporate Strategy

Citation

Joly, Hubert. "Does Your Company’s Culture Reinforce Its Strategy and Purpose?" Harvard Business Review (website) (June 10, 2022).
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About The Author

Hubert Joly

Marketing
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