Detonate

About the book

It’s time to reinvent best practices that have become bad habits within organizations. In Detonate, authors Geoff Tuff and Steven Goldbach explain how organizations build up bad habits, identify which habits masquerade as "best practices," and suggest alternatives that can help win in the marketplace.

With optimism and empowerment, Detonate is a business book that focuses on an approach and mindset critical to successfully competing in an era characterized by profound technological advances and uncertainty.

• Core themes challenge how to think about and approach problems
• Case studies illustrate common challenges and how to overcome them
• Pragmatic recommendations steer clear of a brand-new, complicated wiring diagram
• Actionable advice provides the first steps down an evolutionary path to success

When you have a nagging feeling that the “way we’ve always done it” is actually a waste of time—and possibly value-destroying—Detonate helps you disrupt the status quo and ignite change at your organization.

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NOW AVAILABLE: A new book from bestselling authors Geoff Tuff and Steve Goldbach, “Provoke: How Leaders Shape the Future by Overcoming Fatal Human Flaws”. They explain why we are prone to inaction when faced with uncertainty, and provide solutions for how to overcome these fatal human flaws. They also provide inspiration from the field with profiles of three serial provocateurs.

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Detonate your best practices

Detonate's authors dig into seven specific “normal operating procedures” that businesses should discontinue and replace with new practices.

1. Financial forecasting and budgeting too often optimizes for a spreadsheet outcome rather than a desired business outcome. 
2. The underlying purpose of strategic planning gets lost as the process becomes templatized and routinized around an annual calendar. 
3. Syndicated data gives us insights that are readily available to our competitors and fools us into thinking we have an advantage. 
4. Traditional insight generation relies too much on information that is prone to self-reporting bias. 
5. Most risk management systems—and in particular stage-gate systems—have lost sight of their purpose in favor of process adherence. 
6. Somehow along the way some notions about not just risk tolerance but celebrating failure have taken root. 
7. Org charts and career paths have created the perception of permanence—one of the critical enablers of best-practice orthodoxy.

In discovering Detonate, you learn how to:

• Spot activities and “orthodoxies” that add no value or even destroy value, and act with confidence to call them into question
• Bring to your business new ways of thinking and acting based on lessons from successful companies competing effectively in the digital age
• Identify within your organization where to experiment with new practices without unduly threatening the immediate operating performance of your core business
• Spread the word and help others discover a new, more fulfilling way of operating

Light the fuse to ignite change—order your copy today.

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