[PW] Origins of a quote: "culture eats strategy"

[Bye, Dan J]

I can beat that:

Improving performance in a contracted physician network
Physician Executive, Vol. 25 No. 6 p.60-
November 1999
Smith, Allen L.; Epstein, Andrew L.
"The concept that "culture eats strategy and data for lunch seven days a week" was jarring. (1) Most medical directors thought that if they could just disseminate the crucial idea or data, then all of their doctors would suddenly change and "do the right thing." In reality,ideas and data can usually be challenged. The culture of the group--the behaviors and values that are tolerated or even promoted by the physicians and staff--has far more to do with performance than sophisticated data."

 The phrase is footnoted as follows:
"(1.) The Bard Group introduced this concept."

Marc Bard, of The Bard Group, seems to have most credits for coining it, to judge by some google searches informed by the above.

Dan


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Earliest I can find it. 

Culture eats strategy for breakfast!
Author: Teasdale S.
Source: Informatics in Primary Care, Volume 10, Number 4, 1 November 2002 , pp. 195-196(2)
Publisher: Radcliffe Publishing Ltd. 

Free PDF copy at: http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/rmp/ipc/2002/00000010/00000004/art00001