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14. Developing a Continuous Mindset

Alberto S. Silveira Jr.1  
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Mount Kisco, NY, USA
 

Many managers and productivity experts like to use the term best practices to describe an ideal that people should aspire to. I understand the spirit behind that term, but I personally don’t like to use it with my teams because it’s not continuous enough.

I was taught long ago that the concept of best practices can have two meanings. Although it is intended to represent an ongoing pursuit of continuous improvement, for many people it instead represents a ...

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