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Resources
Research, Writing, and Tools on Cultural Infrastructure
Everything here comes out of the same research base as my consulting work: two decades studying how culture shapes institutions, tested against real transformations in banking, oil, and higher education.
The Book
The Unseen Infrastructure: Why Strategy Survives Disruption and Culture Decides
A field-tested framework for diagnosing why transformation initiatives stall, built around a six-stage diagnostic arc: refusal, descent, evidencing, naming, construction, and verification-in-use. Drawing on cases including Kodak, Boeing, Wells Fargo, NASA, Nokia, Blockbuster, and Microsoft under Satya Nadella, the book gives leaders a rigorous way to see the layer beneath their strategy documents.
The Diagnostic Tool
Is It Your Strategy — Or Your Cultural Infrastructure? A Diagnostic for Leaders Who Can't Figure Out Why Change Keeps Stalling
A free diagnostic for leaders trying to figure out whether their stalled transformation is a strategy problem or a cultural infrastructure problem. Takes fifteen minutes. Gives you a starting answer, not a generic scorecard.
Newsletter
Occasional notes on cultural infrastructure, leadership, and patterns I’m seeing across the organizations I work with. No noise, no filler content between issues.
Ongoing commentary on why transformation efforts stall and the cultural patterns behind it.