At the Transmission Project we’re steadily working towards fleshing out our critique of best practice and the proposal of an alternative: honest practice. If “best practices” are the standards of excellence within organizations considered high performing, how can it be expected that those standards could be immediately implemented in startup programs? What of differences in organizational [...]
At work we’re pushing the idea of Honest Practices over Best Practices. Honest Practices are stories and analysis that include both successes and failures—the latter being something nonprofits often omit (or reframe). Our focus on developing Honest Practices stems from frustration with the meaninglessness of many “Best Practices” that are out there. From Wikipedia: A [...]
The best Sunday sermon I have ever heard (out of 2, the other having been when I was 8 and the pastor was my aunt; but that’s beside the point) went generally as follows: The 10 Commandments are unique both in practice, and in form. Of the 10, there are 6 social rules, 3 religious [...]
