I honestly think it is largely because of tool availability. My general view is that when a person lacks a tool for doing a particular thing, he/she just avoids the task and does other things for which he/she has tools. Every manager with a business education has tools for doing strategy — lots and lots of them. So they do strategy as they have been taught — most of it taught badly. But most business education teaches zippo about culture — so they do other things.

Please don’t be confused. I am most certainly not saying this is a good thing. It is a bad thing — for sure. Business education is deeply flawed and this is but one flaw. Basically, business education focuses like a laser on all the things that are easy to teach and averts its eyes to the hard ones. Culture is a hard one.

But that is my answer to your ‘why’ question.