GROYSBERG, LEE, PRICE, AND CHENG
Leadership
It is hard to overestimate the importance of aligning culture and leadership.
The character and behaviors of a CEO and top executives can have a profound
eff ect on culture. Conversely, culture serves to either constrain or enhance
the performance of leaders. Our own data from executive recruiting activities
shows that a lack of cultural fi t is responsible for up to 68% of new-hire fail-
ures at the senior leadership level. For individual leaders, cultural fi t is as
important as capabilities and experience.
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leadershipCulture styles ranked by strategy
Based on an assessment of 230+ companies (industry) and a subsample of 25 companies
(strategy)