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Does your company’s culture support its strategy? Have your say!

  • Writer: Fraser Jones
    Fraser Jones
  • Jun 16
  • 1 min read

Updated: Jun 26

It’s a pattern we see a lot: leaders set out a well-thought-out and sound strategy, yet a year down the line, they’re chasing their tails trying to work out why they’ve moved no closer to their goals. What they don’t realise is that the problem is usually invisible.


A failed attempt to execute a strategy is likely due to a gap between the strategy that's been set out and the culture that drives the beliefs, interactions, and decisions the people in the company make. If the two don't align, your people won't be mentally equipped to roll out a strategy effectively.


Your culture can be the difference between your employees embracing or resisting change, making smart or reckless decisions, and more.


In 2017, we conducted insightful research, which identified 22 organisational culture barriers that leaders said were impeding their strategic growth, including bureaucracy and an inability to respond to outside changes quickly enough.

Charts that reflect the top 3 organisational culture barriers from the 2017 'does your culture support your strategy?' report: 33% of leaders said their processes and decision-making were too bureaucratic, 24% of leaders said their company was unable to react quickly enough to change, and 21% of leaders reported that poor performance was not addressed in a timely or appropriate manner.
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Have your say


8 years later, we’re updating this research, and we'd like your voice to be included!


Take our survey to share your organisational strategy, and which areas of workplace culture are helping and blocking the business from reaching its targets.

This refreshed data will help organisations, like yours, benchmark their internal culture against the market and understand how they can overcome internal barriers.



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