Category: Culture and Strategy Alignment

Money Heist: What Team Dynamics Look Like Under Pressure
Culture and Strategy Alignment

Money Heist: What Team Dynamics Look Like Under Pressure

Money Heist is one of the most precise depictions of team dynamics under pressure in contemporary cinema. What...

10 Jun 2026 Rama Krishna
Culture and Strategy Alignment

Team Alignment Is Not Team Building. The Confusion Is Expensive.

When a leadership team is not moving in a common direction, the typical response is to send them...

29 Apr 2026 Rama Krishna
Switch by Chip and Dan Heath: The Most Practical Change Management Framework Available and What It Does Not Address
Culture and Strategy Alignment

Switch by Chip and Dan Heath: The Most Practical Change Management Framework Available and What It Does Not Address

The Heath brothers' 2010 book on change is the most practically useful change management framework in the popular...

02 Mar 2026 Rama Krishna
The Founder: A Film About Vision, Mission, and What Gets Lost When Scale Becomes the Strategy
Culture and Strategy Alignment

The Founder: A Film About Vision, Mission, and What Gets Lost When Scale Becomes the Strategy

John Lee Hancock's 2016 film about the McDonald's story is, at its core, a film about the specific...

26 Jan 2026 Rama Krishna
Good to Great Twenty Years On: What Collins Got Right About Culture and What the Hedgehog Concept Misses
Culture and Strategy Alignment

Good to Great Twenty Years On: What Collins Got Right About Culture and What the Hedgehog Concept Misses

Jim Collins's 2001 book remains one of the most influential business texts of the past quarter century. Twenty...

05 Jan 2026 Rama Krishna
When the Senior Team Agrees on the Words but Not on What They Mean
Culture and Strategy Alignment

When the Senior Team Agrees on the Words but Not on What They Mean

The most dangerous form of misalignment in a leadership team is not open disagreement. It is the agreement...

08 Dec 2025 Rama Krishna
What a Values Workshop Actually Produces vs. What Organisations Think It Produces
Culture and Strategy Alignment

What a Values Workshop Actually Produces vs. What Organisations Think It Produces

What happens in the room during a values workshop and what the organisation believes happened are frequently different...

19 Nov 2025 Rama Krishna
The First Day of a Transformation Programme: What I Observe in the Opening Circle
Culture and Strategy Alignment

The First Day of a Transformation Programme: What I Observe in the Opening Circle

The opening circle of a transformation programme tells you almost everything you need to know about what the...

03 Nov 2025 Rama Krishna
On Facilitating a Leadership Team That Does Not Trust Itself
Culture and Strategy Alignment

On Facilitating a Leadership Team That Does Not Trust Itself

The leadership team that does not trust itself is the most common team I work with and the...

13 Oct 2025 Rama Krishna
The Vision Statement That Means Different Things to Different Members of the C-Suite
Culture and Strategy Alignment

The Vision Statement That Means Different Things to Different Members of the C-Suite

The vision statement had been agreed. The leadership team had signed off on every word. Three months later,...

29 Sep 2025 Rama Krishna