Comments on: Resting on Your Laurels Ruins Best Practices

By: Dating a Beautiful Model | Above and Beyond KM

Dating a Beautiful Model | Above and Beyond KM — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 02:41:32 +0000

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By: Fabulous Firms 2.0

Fabulous Firms 2.0 — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 15:35:57 +0000

Should We Follow Best Practices?…

Just couple of days ago I came up with an interesting post by Mary Abraham from the Above and Beyond KM blog. She raises the very important issue of best practices in her post called Just Tell Me What Works! We can see a lot of different best practice…

By: VMaryAbraham

VMaryAbraham — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 03:27:08 +0000

Rick -

You're right that knowledge by itself is insufficient. What we need is
judgment (born of experience) that allows us to determine how much of that
knowledge is applicable to our own situation. (I am a little skeptical of
the urge to adopt another's best practice wholesale.) At the end of the
day, it's that judgment that helps us identify practices that are best for
us and improve them as necessary.

- Mary

By: Rickgrb

Rickgrb — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 20:37:48 +0000

If knowledge was all that a person needed to do a great job, then the world would be an efficient and effective place. There is lots of great knowledge available but relatively few people with the wisdom to use it effectively in any organization. Key to the implementation of best practices is getting people to conceive of the job/initiative in a similar way to those that have proven to be most successful in that environment. First getting people to think about it the right way opens the way for people to embrace those best practices as their own.
Change the thinking first and the behavior change will be much easier.