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. Hone: How Purposeful Leaders Defy Drift argues this thinking is itself in need of an overhaul. Rather than devote time to expensive, long, and often unsuccessful transformations, leaders should instead focus on holistically designing and honing the management systems that are the nervous systems of their businesses. They can take a cue from chefs and other artisans and hone their organizations. After all, honing doesn’t sharpen knives; it realigns a knife’s steel to its original position. Choosing and honing the set of management systems that promote an organization’s desired outcomes (and uninstalling them when they are past their prime) is one of the most important things a business leader can do-and is just as much art as science.
