Peter Drucker’s famous statement, “Culture eats strategy for breakfast”, has embedded itself as one of the most repeated truisms in the business lexicon for decades. And for good reason – everyone resonates with this reality. But it doesn’t have to be an either/or, mutually exclusive battle for supremacy.
While strategy defines direction and focus, culture is the habitat in which strategy lives or dies. Strategy focuses on the harder factors of resourcefulness and skillfulness, while culture defines the softer factors of engagement, energy and execution. Think of it as ‘Hardware’ and ‘Software’, where both are completely reliant on each other to achieve the results you seek. With proper strategy, you create the rules for playing, but culture determines the way the game will be played. They could and should go hand-in-hand and coexist in harmony. And if they do come together in perfect alignment, a new alchemy takes shape as you discover your very own high-performance success philosophy – co-created by all your people to buy into – which changes the landscape for a higher order of being in the journey ahead.
Blending culture and strategy to build a high-performance success philosophy, unique to you, is up to you. But it’s almost impossible to achieve with the endless vagaries of head (intellect), heart (emotions) and hands (actions) dynamics within complex organisations. As a result, culture and strategy don’t naturally combine of their own accord – handed on a plate – but they can make a powerful duo in a proper framework. A robust business model can be built to balance the logic and magic in the art of business science, which is essential for organisations to sustainably transform to greater levels of integration in the real world. In other words, a practical way to systematically codify your own success DNA (the culture & strategy genome in mathematics and art) and drive continuous improvement towards that ideal Formula to achieve your goals.
Culture and strategy can have breakfast together. And they should too. The Blueprints Method – amalgamating science, art, measurements and actions – is the perfect recipe to bring all your ingredients together in a delectably cultured way – your way.
Bon appetit!
We assist CEOs to drive growth by increasing the alignment of people to business goals by 50%
What we do
We assist our clients to mathematically codify their future business philosophies, infuse fresh cultures into their new philosophies and ensure measurable transformation towards those philosophies.
How we do it
Guided by our clients’ future goals, we engage with their leadership and all their employees to co-create their organisation’s future DNA in mathematical Formulas, convert them into art galleries and – through measurements, action plans and accountability metrics – guarantee true and sustainable transformation for enhanced value creation and customer experience.
Why we do it
We simply thrive on the unprecedented results of our clients’ transformation achievements.
Guy Martin is a serial entrepreneur, inventor, founder, owner and CEO of Blueprints with decades of experience in assisting corporate leaders to build High-Performance Cultures.
As a lifelong believer in the pursuit of excellence, he left Africa to join the Royal Air Force and ended up flying the Harrier (Jump-Jet). On returning to South Africa, Guy adapted his military experience to build an elite, Special-Forces logistics business, which grew rapidly across the world. To face the challenge of keeping all his employees aligned to his strategy and market differentiation, he developed a unique Visual Formula for everyone to fully understand the business model, how it worked at its very best and how every employee could contribute to its goals and positioning.
Blueprints was born to balance the logic and magic of organisational psychology to infuse new cultures in support of High-Performance philosophies in the corporate sector. Along with his team of experts, Guy partners with CEOs who understand the challenge of getting their leaders and employees fully onboard with their future ‘North Star’, to measurably drive discretionary effort in the direction of that vision and to unlock the true potential of all their people in such a way that they willingly buy-in to a higher order of being.
“Of the three million things I’ve ever done in the corporate environment, this was by far the most valuable.”
“Blueprints is simply the best mechanism we have ever used to help us drive a high performance culture in our business. I can see a direct correlation between the Blueprints scores and the financial performance of the business. We have such faith in the process that we have incorporated the methodology into the Deloitte suite of offerings”
“Finally, someone has come up with a simple and straightforward approach to: aligning (or re-aligning) a large organisation towards a singular goal, getting all team members to provide input on how to achieve the goal, highlighting work that should be done and also what shouldn’t, and, creating a memorable hook to ensure the organizational change has legs. I have seen this work in real life, in my organization”.
“McDonald’s ranking, in the ‘Best Companies to Work For’ ratings, moved from 47th (Before Blueprints) to 1st (After Blueprints).”
“Dear Guy
We would like to extend our deepest thanks for your kind gift. Your thoughtfulness and generosity are much appreciated.
As our world grows increasingly interdependent, we look forward to working together to the benefit of our two nations, and to strengthening the bonds between our people.
Thank you, again, for the wonderful gift. We wish you all the best.
Sincerely, Barack Obama”
Letter of thanks from US President Barack Obama
US President Barack Obama’s Blueprint for The United States of America
