Reliance on Best Practices" Dooms Businesses to Mediocrity

May 2005 issue of The Guerrilla Consultant Reveals The Worst Thing About Best Practices

San Francisco, CA (PRWEB) May 9, 2005 -- Few management tools are more widely abused these days than so-called best practices. They have become the latest hammer looking for a nail, according to an article in the May 2005 issue of The Guerrilla Consultant (http://www.guerrillaconsulting.com). Relying on canned solutions stifles creativity by encouraging teams to focuses on how to do the work, rather than first addressing what should be done and why.

The article lays out four reasons to dump best practices: they rarely work; its a followers strategy; organizational change comes from within; and most people dont know how to implement them.

The Worst Thing About Best Practices may be read online at http://www.guerrillaconsulting.com/newsletter/issue7-may-05.html. Subscriptions are complimentary.

For more information, contact Andrea Harris at (978) 897-1616 (email pr@minerva-inc.com ).

About The Guerrilla Consultant -- a complementary, online newsletter dedicated to applying the principles of Guerrilla Marketing to the work and lives of professional consultants. Editor Michael W. McLaughlin is coauthor, with Jay Conrad Levinson, of the book Guerrilla Marketing for Consultants (Wiley, 2005). For more information, see http://www.guerrillaconsulting.com.

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