While Paul Perreault’s The Detour CEO: 9 Unexpected Turns on the Road to Leadership Success doesn’t offer revolutionary insights, it serves as a valuable reminder of fundamental leadership principles that leaders often lose sight of in their day-to-day responsibilities.

One of the book’s most compelling concepts is the idea of raising your own boss—viewing the development of good managers as an investment in your future leadership structure. Perreault encourages leaders to think of these individuals as potential future leaders who may one day become your superiors. This mental shift transforms how you approach talent development, emphasizing the importance of truly preparing others for greater responsibility.

The Detour CEO succeeds as a practical leadership reminder rather than a groundbreaking manifesto. While you may not discover revolutionary leadership secrets, you’ll likely find yourself recommitting to practices you know work but haven’t been consistently implementing.

Thanks NetGalley and Forbes Books for the eARC. All opinions are my own.

I love this book simply because it speaks to the place I am in, more around people and management and when you have a big team it is easy to get lost in fixing and solving problems and not empowering teams. Chapter 7 of this book has insights on finding your 80/20 people which I would like to try and ensure I focus on building my people.
Chapter 8 goes straight into expounding more on this with caution on 'don't fix everything,' and it is one major pitfall that I see most managers struggle with.
I would recommend this to anyone in leadership who would like to support and build people. It is well thought out and paced, you get chapter take-aways to build upon and practical activities to try.
Thanks Netgalley for the eARC