Tip #692: Do Organizations Need “Best Practices”?
“Today’s ‘best practices’ led to dead ends; the best paths are new and untried.” Peter Thiel “Implementing best practice is copying yesterday; innovation is inventing
“Today’s ‘best practices’ led to dead ends; the best paths are new and untried.” Peter Thiel “Implementing best practice is copying yesterday; innovation is inventing
“Speaking for myself, I spend a good ten minutes a day deciding whether or not to read the results of new surveys, and, once I
The culture of a workplace – an organization’s values, norms and practices – has a huge impact on our happiness and success. Adam Grant I
“Engagement may have been optional in the past, but it’s pretty much the whole game today.” Gary Hamel I recently read about a Forrester Research
“Hiring people is like making friends. Pick good ones, and they’ll enrich your life. Make bad choices, and they’ll bring you down.” Jason Fried In
“The best leaders don’t know just one style of leadership- they are skilled at several and have the flexibility to switch between styles as the
“If you align expectations with reality, you will never be disappointed.” Terrell Owens There are many reasons why employees are unable to meet performance expectations:
“The people sensible enough to give good advice are usually sensible enough to give none.” Eden Phillpotts There are a number of reasons why people
Hello, This is my first full day in Amman. I’ve spent most of it sleeping, since I can’t sleep on the trip over. It is
“Consensus doesn’t happen by magic…You have to drive to it.” Christine Quinn Consensus is defined by the Center for Conflict Resolution as follows: “Simply stated,
“In true dialogue, both sides are willing to change.” Nhat Hanh Unresolved interpersonal conflict can be characterized as a duel (where the goal is to
“The best way to have a good idea is to have a lot of ideas.” Linus Pauling Whenever there is a need to generate ideas,
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