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I recently read extracts from a new book titled Good Strategy, Bad Strategy by Richard Rumelt of the UCLA Anderson School of Management. One of Rumelt’s contentions is that copying from other companies, especially business icons, can often lead to... David Silverstein http://www.leadershipandbusiness.com/2012/05/how-to-spot-a-one-trick-pony.html

Recently I attended one of the countless numbers of conferences held every year to examine best practices. At this conference, one of the speakers, a longtime client, boasted about his company’s best practices. As he talked on, I thought to... David Silverstein http://www.leadershipandbusiness.com/2012/05/best-practices-the-good-the-bad-the-ugly.html

What is it about best practices that make them so appealing? Google, Facebook, Amazon, everyone loves to talk about them. You might be thinking the Internet is the key to their success. And that’s certainly a big part of it.... David Silverstein http://www.leadershipandbusiness.com/2012/04/best-practices-arriving-at-the-wrong-solution.html

We read about companies like Facebook, Google, and Amazon. Or SpaceX and Tesla. But for some reason, as businesses go, they don’t quite seem real. For most people, they’re very different from the companies they work for. After all, while... David Silverstein http://www.leadershipandbusiness.com/2012/04/the-new-science-of-management.html