The 16-point culture inspection

Why we do this

Peter Drucker famously said “Culture eats strategy for breakfast.” We’ve studied this extensively and have never managed to catch a glimpse of culture eating breakfast.

Breakfast aside, Peter had a point—culture is really important because it shapes behavior and business results are entirely a function of human behavior.

Sadly, too many organizations only think about culture when there’s a crisis—which is too late. And even those who do pay attention to their culture often fail to look holistically at how the culture operates a system—so they end up sending lots of mixed messages and breeding cynicism.

What we do

We’ll conduct a holistic assessment of your organization—focusing on your purpose, strategy, and culture. We’ll look for dissonance between your stated intentions and the experience of your team members; and we’ll look for ways that different aspects of the organization are reinforcing each other and ways where they may be at cross-purposes.

The goal is to paint a clear picture so you know how to show up distinctively inside your organization to deliver the greatest value.

What you’ll get

We’ll deliver a report with insights derived from reviewing your documents, our interviews, and our proprietary culture survey. (We understand survey fatigue. If you’ve already got what we need, we’ll spare your team the annoyance of yet another survey.)

We’ll include briefs for closing priority gaps to get more out of the investments you’re making to build a distinctive culture.