COMING 2026 – currently with a literary agent
The Detour Advantage
HOW TO RESPOND WHEN LIFE DOESN’T FOLLOW THE PLAN
Most people experience disruption and immediately try to fix it, fight it, or escape it.
The highest performers do something different. They extract direction from it. This book shows you how.
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— ABOUT THE BOOK
A book for the moment when the plan breaks
Disruption doesn’t announce itself. A career shift. A market reversal. A strategy that stops working. A personal setback that reorders everything you thought was settled.
Most people stall in those moments — not because they lack talent or determination, but because nobody taught them how to read what a detour actually means.
The Detour Advantage is the book that changes that. It is not a collection of motivational stories. It is a structured system — developed and tested in real organizational and personal settings — for moving from disruption to clarity without forcing answers too early.
Dr. George spent years watching the same pattern repeat across industries, organizations, and individual careers: the people who recovered fastest from disruption were not the most resilient or the most experienced.
They were the ones who knew how to interpret what was happening — and respond deliberately instead of reactively.
This book codifies that pattern into a five-phase framework anyone can apply — whether you’re leading an organization through change, or navigating a detour in your own life.
— WHO IT’S FOR
This book meets you wherever your detour is
Disruption doesn’t announce itself. A career shift. A market reversal. A strategy that stops working. A personal setback that reorders everything you thought was settled.
Most people stall in those moments — not because they lack talent or determination, but because nobody taught them how to read what a detour actually means.
The Detour Advantage is the book that changes that. It is not a collection of motivational stories. It is a structured system — developed and tested in real organizational and personal settings — for moving from disruption to clarity without forcing answers too early.
A note on timing: The Detour Advantage is currently in literary agent negotiations and is scheduled for publication later in 2026. If you’re a publisher, agent, or media contact interested in the project, please reach out directly at michaeltgeorge.com or connect on LinkedIn. Sign up above to be notified the moment it’s available to the public.
— ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Dr. Michael T. George
Senior strategy executive, keynote speaker, and three-time published author. Creator of The Detour Advantage™ framework, applied across multiple industries during real moments of organizational pressure and change. Featured guest on SiriusXM and Fox News Radio. Published by Post Hill Press / Simon & Schuster.
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