I chose this book because I have had to transform the culture of each department that I've lead. I hoped to get some more ideas to add to my toolkit and I did. The quotes, charts, takeaways and questions to consider caught my attention. Chapters 4 -6, 8-11 provided strategies I can use now. I prefer more stories in my leadership books and I skimmed some chapters. That's why I'm giving this 4 stars.

This book came at an opportune time, exactly when I was about to take a few sessions on the topic of culture within an organizational behaviour course. I read it with interest and found it to be very impactful and actionable. The authors start with a good foundation of why culture is important, supported by statistics. They go on to explain what culture is - about the hidden aspect and 'softness'. They describe culture akin to gardening - that it evolves whether we tend to them or not, but the idea is about whether we plan and monitor and also cultivate culture or leave it to grow wild.

A nice perspective that the book provides is that culture is a biological activity since it deals with people who are biological. The authors talk about mirror neurons and how we participate in the context through our nervous system.

Each chapter ends with highlights about the chapter and then provide questions to the reader (leader) to consider. Given the authors have their own consulting practice in this space there seems to be lot of legitimacy with respect to their framework and models provided.

Overall a recommended book for leaders at higher levels and in general for people interested in the area of culture

The book covers an important aspect of business connected to culture. Employees tend to act in a certain way, business management has own understanding of strategy and how results should look like. The question is how to firm, born an perform within a business culture to reach the results required. This book guides and provides insights on how to leverage and create corporate culture for strong business results.