{"id":5432,"date":"2013-06-28T07:39:27","date_gmt":"2013-06-28T15:39:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.regnordman.com\/?p=5432"},"modified":"2013-06-28T07:39:27","modified_gmt":"2013-06-28T15:39:27","slug":"best-practices-are-stupid-40-ways-to-out-innovate-the-competition-stephen-m-shapiro","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.regnordman.com\/2013\/06\/28\/best-practices-are-stupid-40-ways-to-out-innovate-the-competition-stephen-m-shapiro\/","title":{"rendered":"Best Practices are Stupid. 40 ways to out-innovate the competition. Stephen M. Shapiro."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a onclick=\"javascript:pageTracker._trackPageview('\/outgoing\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/65214961@N00\/8265422468');\"  href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/65214961@N00\/8265422468\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"zemanta-img-inserted zemanta-img-configured\" title=\"20121211 Book - Best Practices Are Stupid - St...\" alt=\"20121211 Book - Best Practices Are Stupid - St...\" src=\"http:\/\/farm9.static.flickr.com\/8504\/8265422468_fecb33a70e_m.jpg\" width=\"240\" height=\"180\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Best Practices are Stupid. 40 ways to out-innovate the competition. Stephen M. Shapiro. 2011. ISBN 9781591843856. A small but powerful book that leaders will need to have on their bookshelf. The author knows this topic ans is able to deliver the 40 tips concisely with impact. I have used a few of the ideas already and they really did &#8220;cut through&#8221; the fog.\u00a0 Lots of resources on his website http:\/\/www.steveshapiro.com\/best-practices-are-stupid\/innovationtools\/ as well as a blog on the topic.\u00a0 You can also get the first five chapters as a sample.\u00a0 Buying the book is a bit of a challenge but it is worth the search. Good stuff for a three hour flight.\u00a0 I loved it that using best practices is the cost of playing the game- not what you need to win. His sections on game play are worth the price of the book<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h6 class=\"zemanta-related-title\" style=\"font-size: 1em;\">Related articles<\/h6>\n<ul class=\"zemanta-article-ul zemanta-article-ul-image\" style=\"margin: 0; padding: 0; overflow: hidden;\">\n<li class=\"zemanta-article-ul-li-image zemanta-article-ul-li\" style=\"padding: 0; background: none; list-style: none; display: block; float: left; vertical-align: top; text-align: left; width: 84px; font-size: 11px; margin: 2px 10px 10px 2px;\"><a onclick=\"javascript:pageTracker._trackPageview('\/outgoing\/www.freebalance.com\/blog\/?p=4226');\" style=\"box-shadow: 0px 0px 4px #999; padding: 2px; display: block; border-radius: 2px; text-decoration: none;\"  href=\"http:\/\/www.freebalance.com\/blog\/?p=4226\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"padding: 0; margin: 0; border: 0; display: block; width: 80px; max-width: 100%;\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/i.zemanta.com\/noimg_71_80_80.jpg\" \/><\/a><a onclick=\"javascript:pageTracker._trackPageview('\/outgoing\/www.freebalance.com\/blog\/?p=4226');\" style=\"display: block; overflow: hidden; text-decoration: none; line-height: 12pt; height: 80px; padding: 5px 2px 0 2px;\"  href=\"http:\/\/www.freebalance.com\/blog\/?p=4226\" target=\"_blank\">Limits of Best Practices in Institutional Reform<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div class=\"zemanta-pixie\" style=\"margin-top: 10px; height: 15px;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"zemanta-pixie-img\" style=\"border: none; float: right;\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/img.zemanta.com\/pixy.gif?x-id=b544c127-2ba8-44fd-95d4-1e7c9c31d3bf\" \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> A small but powerful book that leaders will need to have on their bookshelf. The author knows this topic ans is able to deliver the 40 tips concisely with impact. I have used a few of the ideas already and they really did &#8220;cut through&#8221; the fog.  Lots of resources on his website http:\/\/www.steveshapiro.com\/best-practices-are-stupid\/innovationtools\/ as well as a blog on the topic.  You can also get the first five chapters as a sample.  Buying the book is a bit of a challenge but it is worth the search. Good stuff for a three hour flight.I loved it that using best practices is the cost of playing the game- not what you need to win. His sections on game play are worth the price of the book.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,7,9],"tags":[591,2777,1800,582],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.regnordman.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5432"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.regnordman.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.regnordman.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.regnordman.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.regnordman.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5432"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.regnordman.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5432\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5556,"href":"https:\/\/www.regnordman.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5432\/revisions\/5556"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.regnordman.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5432"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.regnordman.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5432"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.regnordman.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5432"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}