Is organizational culture the hero or villain of your pandemic story?
It’s time to test whether cultures that are better aligned to strategy execution are helping companies respond to COVID-19.
Photograph by Natalia Shabasheva
Corporate culture, enabled by strong leadership, has never been more important for organizations than in this past year, as COVID-19 forced drastic changes in the workplace. That leadership, though, wasn’t just from the people at the top; equally important were the informal leaders down through the ranks who embody an organization’s culture, help hold teams together, and motivate people to get things done. As the Polish film director and screenwriter Krzysztof Kieślowski once said, “If culture is capable of anything, then it is finding that which unites us all.”