The MTP Business Learning Blog

This blog is produced by MTP for senior professionals highlighting relevant and interesting books and articles on business, finance and strategy, and the opportunity to comment on them. It also contains news of MTP and its clients and, from time to time, extracts from MTP publications.

Tuesday 31 May 2016

Culture is not the Culprit – Am I am missing something?

There was an interesting article on organisational culture in the Harvard Business Review of April 2016, by Jay W. Lorsch and Emily McTague. 

I had been meaning to write a blog piece on this when the June edition arrived on my doorstep today.  There is a follow up with some comments from readers and a response from the authors. 

The front page of HBR in April, which heavily promotes the article, says ‘You can’t fix culture just focus on your business and the rest will follow.’  At MTP we have long held the view that strategy is the key to business success, both the formulation of a strategy and its implementation.