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Does Your Companys Culture Reinforce Its Strategy and Purpose?

Good strategy has traditionally been seen as the key to business success. More recently, purpose has become an essential element of doing business. But something else is missing: culture, or the essential elements of how an organization and its employees behave, as well as its governing beliefs and principles. And yet, culture often receives less attention than purpose and strategy. The author thinks of purpose, strategy, and culture as a triangle: Each angle connects with and shapes the other two, and if one changes, the other two must evolve and adjust to maintain balance and shape, or the triangle breaks and falls apart. He presents three types of levers companies can use to profoundly shape an effective culture and allow their strategy to come to fruition.

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L.A. D.A. Gascón declines to prosecute deputies in high-profile shootings of teens
L.A. D.A. Gascón declines to prosecute deputies in high-profile shootings of teens
Keri Blakinger covers the Los Angeles Sheriff’s Department. Before joining the Los Angeles Times in 2023, she spent nearly seven years in Texas, first covering criminal justice for the Houston Chronicle and then covering prisons for the Marshall Project. Her work has appeared everywhere from the BBC to the New York Daily News, from Vice to the Washington Post Magazine, where her 2019 reporting on women in jail helped earn a National Magazine Award. She is the author of “Corrections in Ink,” a 2022 memoir about her time in prison.

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Column: Older drivers have road rage over DMV test questions. Some would prefer driving test
Column: Older drivers have road rage over DMV test questions. Some would prefer driving test
Steve Lopez is a California native who has been a Los Angeles Times columnist since 2001. He has won more than a dozen national journalism awards and is a four-time Pulitzer finalist. Lopez is the author most recently of “Independence Day: What I Learned About Retirement, From Some Who’ve Done It and Some Who Never Will.” His book “The Soloist,” inspired by his columns on his relationship with a Juilliard-trained homeless person, was a Los Angeles Times and New York Times best-seller, winner of the PEN USA Literary Award for Non-Fiction, and the subject of a Dream Works movie by the same name. He has also written three novels and two column collections.

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Hedda Kleinfeld Schachter Dies at 99; Built an Empire of Tulle and Satin
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A Tiny Number of Shoplifters Commit Thousands of New York City Thefts
A Tiny Number of Shoplifters Commit Thousands of New York City Thefts
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Alec Baldwin Wants ‘Misguided' Lawsuit Filed by Halyna Hutchins' Parents and Sister Dismissed
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Lingering Hotspots Keep Rockland County on Alert; Train Spark Blamed for 2 Dozen Brush Fires
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L.A. public health officials link multistate hepatitis A outbreak to San Diego frozen-fruit importer
L.A. public health officials link multistate hepatitis A outbreak to San Diego frozen-fruit importer
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'Create policies that save lives': Families rally against jail deaths, demand change
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Scooter operators say strict rules, rampant theft threaten business — a key part of San Diego’s climate plan
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He died with three Purple Hearts but no known relatives. So county officials gave him a military burial
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Report: Police agencies exceeded overtime budgets countywide as a result of staffing challenges
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U.S. Coast Guard, Mexican Navy searching for missing American sailors last seen en route to San Diego
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Is San Diego taking the right approach to remaking downtown's Civic Center?
Is San Diego taking the right approach to remaking downtown's Civic Center?
Worshipers including President Vladimir Putin crowded into Moscow’s vast Christ the Savior Cathedral for Easter services led by Russian Orthodox Church head Patriarch Kirill, a supporter of Russia’s military actions in Ukraine

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Police still looking for hit-and-run driver who struck, seriously injured woman in Little Italy
Police still looking for hit-and-run driver who struck, seriously injured woman in Little Italy
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Dodgers and MLB Honor Jackie Robinson Day
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Amid budget concerns, Newsom pulls back funding increase for foster care advocate program
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After years of cuts and financial turmoil, L.A.'s famed Fashion Institute finds a lifeline
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Four men wounded in two separate shootings in Los Angeles overnight
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Off-duty LAPD officer dies on his way home from work in 210 Freeway crash
Off-duty LAPD officer dies on his way home from work in 210 Freeway crash
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Three San Diego-bound sailors missing after departing Mexico more than a week ago
Three San Diego-bound sailors missing after departing Mexico more than a week ago
Debbie Truong is a higher education reporter for the Los Angeles Times. Previously, she covered PK-12 education for WAMU-FM (88.5), the NPR affiliate in Washington, D.C., and the Washington Post. She attended Syracuse University and received a master’s degree in journalism from American University. She grew up in the San Gabriel Valley.

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Two arrested in fatal stabbing of 25-year-old man on Metro train
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How Monica Puig finds post-tennis fulfillment, 26.2 miles at a time
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Is Jets star Quinnen Williams 'next man up' in defensive tackle gold rush?
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Lampard's return to Chelsea turns sour as Brighton show the tables have turned
Lampard's return to Chelsea turns sour as Brighton show the tables have turned
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Haaland equalling Salah's goal record makes Treble possible for Man City
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Spring football games: Who wins QB battles, who's out, others to watch
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Why Jackie Robinson was an even better baseball player than you realize
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Four small-school NFL draft prospects you should know for 2023
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The 25 best players in the 2023 NBA playoffs
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2023 NCAA gymnastics championships: Oklahoma repeats and Trinity Thomas ties record
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Blue Jackets fire Larsen as coach after 2 seasons
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American savers are missing out – because bank interest rates are trailing the Fed's benchmark by a record amount
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Glencore Digs in for Battle as Momentum Shifts Against Teck
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Carlyle Group co-founder David Rubenstein: Interest rates will ‘continue to go up for a while’
Carlyle Group co-founder David Rubenstein: Interest rates will ‘continue to go up for a while’
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Maps: Best and worst states for taxes in 2023
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History Shows OPEC Can't Save Oil Stocks
History Shows OPEC Can't Save Oil Stocks
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African climate startups set to gain ground as VC funding shifts their way
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Enterprise companies and generative AI: Just looking?
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Yep, ‘Learning Man’ is becoming a thing 
Yep, ‘Learning Man’ is becoming a thing 
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Twitter exposes secrets, FTC clamps down on review hijackers and Android 14 arrives
Robot revolution: Brian spoke with over a dozen VCs about the state of robotics investing in 2023. As he notes, despite the recent downtrend, robotics remains vibrant and exciting, and it unquestionably has a bright future of exponential growth ahead.



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