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Wednesday, 28 March 2007

It's a stragedy

Posted by Simon Baker

A strategy is a plan of action to achieve an overall goal. But when a meeting convened to devise a new organisation structure produces the same kind of hierarchy, just dressed up a little differently, it’s more like a tradegy than a strategy. It’s a stradegy , if you like.

Strategising about organisation without considering the affect of corporate culture probably isn’t going to get you the improvements you want because culture eats strategy for breakfast . When a company is pickled, it’s not necessarily blind to its problems but it is often blind to the root causes of those problems. It’s strategy for change is preoccupied with fixing symptoms.

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