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Culture Is Everything: How to Strategically Transform an Organisation

In: The Palgrave Handbook of Strategy, Change and Transformational Project Leadership

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  • Cheryl Crosthwaite

    (Deakin University, Faculty of Business and Law)

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Studies of strategy implementation demonstrate close links between organisational culture (OC) and strategic success, with Johnson suggesting this as early as 1987. It is argued that the achievement of organisation strategy can be either enabled or constrained by the leadership, culture, and behaviour of its members, often colloquially expressed by the phrase culture eats strategy for breakfast. To ensure that strategy is successful, we need to see a positive alignment between organisational culture and strategy. As a leader, it is essential that you understand your own organisational culture and then be able to determine if it is fit for purpose and, if not, how to identify the changes that are needed. In this chapter, we will explore contemporary case examples of the remote/return to the office tension that illustrate why and how organisations need to transform their organisational culture to ensure successful strategy implementation. A roadmap is presented to help leaders successfully achieve cultural transformation.

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  • Cheryl Crosthwaite, 2026. "Culture Is Everything: How to Strategically Transform an Organisation," Springer Books, in: Angelina Zubac & Ofer Zwikael & Danielle Tucker & Elizabeth More & Zhou Jiang & Shelley Kirkpatrick (ed.), The Palgrave Handbook of Strategy, Change and Transformational Project Leadership, chapter 0, pages 311-334, Springer.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:sprchp:978-981-95-3588-0_16
    DOI: 10.1007/978-981-95-3588-0_16
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