From Best Practices to Next Practices
In this final part of a series on best practices, Dan Wooldridge points out that chasing best practices by definition demonstrates that you are lagging. He urges us to move toward the front by developing next practices.
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Biblical Best Practices - Do They Exist?
Dan Wooldridge, in his series on Chasing Best Practices, explores the question of whether Biblical best practices actually exist.
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How to Pursue Best Practices
Dan Wooldridge, having written about the dangers of mindlessly pursuing best practices, provides seven suggestions for the effective pursuit of best practices.
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The Dangers of Mindless Imitation
How can you say that you shouldn’t chase best practices. Dan Wooldridge points out four problems of mindlessly chasing best practices.
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The Unintended Impact of Best Practices
Dan Wooldridge writes about the unintended consequences of chasing best practices.
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Brett Johnson is an accomplished entrepreneur, consultant and international businessperson serving clients in Asia, Africa and the US. After 14 years with Price Waterhouse in the US and South Africa and stints as a partner at KPMG and Computer Sciences Corporation, Brett founded The Institute for Integration, Innovation & Impact […]
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Lessons in Customer Relations
I travel way too much. My kids tease me that the only people that send me personalized Christmas cards are hotel staff. So over the years I’ve developed a pretty keen sense of the good, the bad, and the ugly of the travel, hospitality, and restaurant businesses. In addition, I spent nearly eight […]
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Profiting From Evidence-Based Management
Pfeffer and Sutton point out that executives often make decisions based on gut feel, what’s worked in the past, recommendations from others, and conventional wisdom.
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There's More Than One Way to Get Things Done
My brother-in-law hired an Amish company to put a new roof on his home. Those guys didn’t just look different; they thought and worked outside the box.
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