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Bicycles, Ugly Balls, and Oranges in Strategy

They say that “culture eats strategy for breakfast.” I wasn’t really sure what this meant when I first heard it. Then, gradually, when the CEO of the company where I work explained it, it turned to imply that the culture of your company always determines success regardless of how effective your strategy may be. Our CEO also believes in the power of certain things that power our culture like riding broken bicycles, grooming ugly balls, and turning apple into oranges.    Now, here’s the thing, I’ve never written about my career on this public journal of mine, but I feel like sharing something special through this piece.    I was going through pictures on my phone of the past month at work. They were all random pictures and videos taken at different times; selfies from field visits, videos from the car commuting between meetings, and pictures from the office documenting what I believe to be important moments for us to look back and reflect on. In every picture, there was a story of a cert