Culture is a Strategy Execution System
He realized that culture is not how organizations present themselves. It is how work actually gets done; especially when no one is watching. If culture is how work gets done, then you can manage it like any other execution system. In practice, it runs on five levers… When these levers are clear, culture stops being a slogan and becomes predictable performance. Strategy lives in boardrooms. Culture shows up in Tuesday decisions; how teams respond when deadlines collide, information is incomplete, and oversight is limited.