Can Business Save Us?: The Dual Traps of Business Mythology

So how would you answer this question: is business the problem behind, or the solution to, our collective ills?

As trust in social institutions continues to plummet, many people today are looking to business to provide meaning and purpose. Where else to turn, after all, when political institutions are gridlocked, education seems ineffective, and religion is, well, complicated? Business, at its best...

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Does Culture Really Eat Strategy for Lunch? (A Reflection on Drucker’s Dictum)

At some point in their careers, most executives come across management guru Peter Drucker’s dictum that culture “eats strategy over breakfast” (or lunch, depending on the version they read). Drucker’s point was that culture takes priority over, and can in fact derail, any strategy one might pursue in the course of fulfilling an organization’s mission. That is, any strategy that fails to be generated by, or account for, culture has the potential to itself be thwarted.

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