The bold statement of this blog post title is from Mike Myatt’s knol - The Problem with Best Practices.

I could not agree more with him.

Mike Myatt, a Top CEO Coach, explained in his knol, “Best Practices are really nothing more than disparate groups of methodologies, processes, rules, concepts, and theories that have previously garnered success in certain areas. However, prior individual or contextual successes rarely warrant being deemed as universal truths.”

From my own experience, implementing best practices do often backfires - my business productivity is slumping to mediocrity and my employees morale went lower than before.

If so, why experts and consultants always insist you to do changes based on best practices?

Best practices do help you enhance your business performance.

However, you must remember that best practices are others’ success stories. As Mike Myatt explained in his knol, you can learn from them and this will benefit you and your business, only if you modify the best practices to suit your business situation and condition.

Here is another interesting take on best practices by Mike - “Let’s examine this from another angle… Why would you want to do business in the same fashion as your competitors?”

Exactly.

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