Culture Captures the Cost Savings

In this week’s CEO Daily Brief, I spoke with labor strategy expert John Frehse about the growing pressure leaders face to choose between results and humanity. That pressure is a false choice. Culture isn’t a “nice-to-have”—it’s what determines whether results last. You can cut costs or implement new tools, but if your culture isn’t aligned, none of it sticks.

At Culture Partners, we work with leaders to operationalize strategy, and we do it through culture—because culture is the strategy. It’s how cost savings become sustainable. As John put it: running the numbers doesn’t capture value. People do.