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Not all best practices are best
From the course: Management Tips
Not all best practices are best
For decades now, we've been talking about best practices. A best practice is a technique or way of doing something that has consistently shown results superior to those achieved by other means. Thus, it's considered a benchmark. In business, it's a popular buzz word. And in any given area of industry, you'll find many best practices for any functional area of the organization. The truth is, we've become far too comfortable accepting best practices as useful. Sometimes, they might be right for you. And other times, they might not. It doesn't matter what best practice you're talking about. It might be a type of software one should use for some aspect of finance or maybe a new trend. An employee on boarding, or some new technique for online advertising. For any best practice, it might work for you or it might not. Sometimes, believe it or not, they can even do damage. The truth is, there really is no such thing as a best practice. Every single organization is different. Different people,…
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Becoming a change agent2m 59s
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Finding targets for innovation2m 45s
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Assessing your organization's change readiness2m 50s
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Embracing failure2m 33s
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Developing your creativity3m 6s
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Breaking through with brainstorming3m 16s
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Embracing the devil's advocate2m 50s
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Managing creative talent3m 2s
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Fighting bureaucracy3m 6s
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Diversity’s real power2m 6s
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Initiating change conversations2m 57s
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Creating needed debate3m 2s
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Knowing when to engage positive conflict2m 42s
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Myth of creative genius2m 44s
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Changing routines to build new thought2m 41s
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Making risk feel like learning2m 47s
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The difference between creativity and innovation3m 10s
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People don't hate change2m 47s
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Advocating for the unpopular2m 20s
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The upside of limited resources2m 54s
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Understanding change capacity2m 24s
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Picking a successful fight at work2m 19s
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Start, stop, change2m 44s
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