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Why culture kills a strategic plan before it even has a chance to start

Lon L. Swartzentruber
by Lon L. Swartzentruber
on June 10, 2025

For many years I understood that the highest form of developing an organization’s future were the elements broadly described as strategic planning. These elements, all of which propel transformation, ...

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