This quote from Peter Drucker is already an old one..., but “culture eats strategy for breakfast” still aptly describes the reality of organizational development projects.
When we support organizational development projects, we try various ways to get to the core of the received assumptions and patterns affecting organizations and make them visible. We work with simulations, experiments, learning journeys, and self-observation opportunities for teams and organizational units.
Because only when people in organizations jointly recognize and describe what old models of success, assumptions and strongly held beliefs will hinder them in the future, is truly innovative thought and action possible.