Why You Should Blow Up Your Best Practices

CFO.com | Tuesday, July 10, 2018

Many common corporate activities and thought processes actually promote mediocrity and inhibit needed business-model transformations, a new book contends. What if it turned out that best practices were not “best” after all? What if adhering to best practices actually signaled a company’s mediocrity? Those aren’t frivolous or absurd musings. They’re central tenets of a quite serious new book, “Detonate” (Wiley, May 2018). It aims to help organizations “spot traditional business activities that need to be questioned” during an era when business is increasingly defined by disruption.”