Breakout Briefs

Culture isn’t wallpaper. It’s your company’s operating system. That may sound like an eye-rolling metaphor, but it’s an appropriate one for this discussion. Most leaders talk about and act as if organizational culture is a company decoration.   It's treated as an afterthought.  Something that makes everyone feel better.   Rarely do you hear it positioned as an important driver of growth.   This framing is both wrong and costly. The truth is organizational culture is like an o

Most companies enter a new year with ambitious growth goals but a sense of apprehension about whether, or how, they’ll reach them. That apprehension rarely comes from doubts about employee effort. It comes from uncertainty…and guesswork. Where are leadership’s blind spots? Are the key growth drivers (sales, marketing, brand, and culture) actually aligned? How much of the forecast is based on clarity versus guesswork? These questions open the door to friction, misalignment, an