Should Every Project Change the Culture?

Peter Drucker said “culture eats strategy for breakfast.”

But here’s the counter: project management assumes culture can be changed.

In this week’s throwback episode of the PM Debate Podcast, Mary Elizabeth and I take on a deceptively simple question:

👉 Should changing corporate culture be the aim of every transformation project?

I argue yes, because if the culture stays the same, nothing really changes.

She argues no, because culture change is hard, rare, and not every project needs to carry that weight.

Together, we debate:

* Whether PMs can (or should) overcome culture

* The difference between adapting to norms vs. resetting them

* Who’s really responsible for culture change, the PMs or the Executives?

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