Daron PachecoCEO, Howdy Media · Brand Builder

Is your company culture eating your strategy for breakfast?

24 Jun 2026 · 1 min

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In this brief monologue, the speaker references the well‑known maxim “culture eats strategy for breakfast” and asks listeners to consider the health of their organization’s culture while pursuing strategic goals. He defines culture as the day‑to‑day atmosphere and environment of the workplace – essentially whether employees look forward to or dread coming to work and interacting with colleagues. By framing culture as the emotional and relational backdrop of an organization, he highlights its critical role in enabling or undermining the execution of any strategy.

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And he said, culture eats strategy for breakfast every day of the week. And so you can have these strategies, but, but, but how's the culture while you're trying to make the strategies come to pass? And so culture for me, I guess, would be, um, what's the environment? What's the atmosphere? Do you dread going to hang around with the people that you're working with? Do the people that are coming to work with you and for you, do they dread it? What is the atmosphere? And so for me, culture would just be the atmosphere, the environment that you, that you're working in.