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Hone : How Purposeful Leaders Defy Drift.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Tuff, Geoff.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Industrial management.
- Leadership.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (221 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Newark : John Wiley & Sons, Incorporated, 2025.
- Summary:
- A clarion call to business leaders to recast their conception of leadership and strategy execution to meet the demands of the modern world Have a problem with your organization's strategy in an era of accelerating, exponential change?Modern business orthodoxy has an easy answer: transform it.
- Contents:
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- Part I What It Means to Hone
- Chapter 1 The Chef
- A Chef's Devotion
- Honing, Not Sharpening
- The Siren Song of Transformation
- The Meal Ahead
- Back to the Kitchen
- Chapter 2 The Problem with Drift
- The Causes of Organizational Drift
- External Factors Driving Drift
- Internal Factors Driving Drift
- The Power of Management Systems to Address Drift
- "Elemental Purpose": Another Tool to Address Drift
- Chapter 3 The Nervous System of Strategy
- The Importance of the Bottom of the Cascade
- A Powerful, Potentially Virtuous Cycle of Reward
- The Danger Zone: Setting and Forgetting Management Systems
- A Taxonomy for Management Systems
- Formal Management Systems
- Performance Evaluation
- Budgets
- Organizational Design
- Metric Design
- Public Commitments
- Informal Management Systems
- Unwritten Rules
- Decision Rights
- Executive Questions and Behavior
- Meeting Norms
- Orthodoxy
- Why Management Systems Matter
- How Leaders Should Hone Management Systems
- A New Understanding of Culture
- Chapter 4 The Craftsman
- A Machinist's Precision
- An Uncharted Journey
- Sailing On
- Chapter 5 Wiring the Nervous System
- Management System Design
- Consistency and Congruence
- Binary versus Continuous Metrics
- Qualitative versus Quantitative Metrics
- Carrots versus Sticks
- Reliable and Accurate Feedback Loops
- Uninstalling Management Systems
- Who Designs the Management Systems?
- Part II Hone Your Organization
- Chapter 6 Chief System Designer
- The CEO as Chief Systems Designer
- Setting the Destination
- Creating Coherence
- Inserting and Resolving Tension
- Guardrails for Delegation
- Systems Design for the Rest of Us
- Chapter 7 The Director
- Starting the Journey
- Listening to Your Subject
- Chapter 8 Principles of System Design.
- Systems Thinking
- Systems Thinking Is Just Thinking
- Anticipate Reverberations
- Lessons from the Game Room
- Complexity Multipliers in System Design
- Heterogeneous versus Homogeneous Behavior Motivations
- The Gravitational Pull of Predictability
- Chapter 9 A Recipe for Change
- The Human Factor
- Behavior as Building Block
- Back to the Restaurant: A Simple Example of System Design
- Identify the Actors
- Articulate the Outcome and Behavioral Change
- Identify Motivators for Behavioral Change
- Act via Management Systems
- Hone the System Over Time
- The Importance of Uninstalling
- Change Starts Within
- Balancing Innovation and Stability
- Chapter 10 Walking the Talk
- The Background
- An Integrated Organization
- Encouraging Teaming
- New Management Systems
- The Realignment
- Deloitte's Future
- Chapter 11 The Rock Band
- An Enduring Purpose
- From Startup to Incumbent
- An Entrepreneurial Influence
- Part III Hone Our Collective Challenges
- Chapter 12 Widening the Lens
- The Nature of Management Systems in Ecosystems
- Sliding Scales of Complexity
- Archetypes of Ecosystem Solutions
- A Bias for Action
- Chapter 13 Minimally Viable Thoughts: Honing Our Future
- Honing Complex Collective Challenges
- Follow the Money
- Making the Economics Work
- Identifying the Leverage Point
- Getting Beyond the Chicken and Egg
- Contracting for Market Momentum
- Walking the Talk Part Deux: Deloitte and SAF
- Much Work to Be Done
- Chapter 14 Reflections on a Trilogy
- Revisiting Our Broader Project
- Five Foundational Maxims
- Honing the Life Journey
- Notes
- Acknowledgments
- About the Authors
- Index
- EULA.
- Notes:
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 1-394-30454-4
- 1-394-30456-0
- 9781394304547
- OCLC:
- 1545123074
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