MIT Sloan Management Review Article on Why Best Practices Often Fall Short

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  • Jérôme Barthélemy
  • MIT Sloan Management Review
  • 2020

For many leaders, the allure of best practices is strong and their expectations for results are unrealistic.

Executives tend to take the value of best practices as a given. We have an abiding faith in the idea that the most direct route to improved performance is to study what successful companies do and copy them.

About the Author

Jérôme Barthélemy is a professor of strategy and management at ESSEC Business School in Paris. His book Libérer la Compétitivité (Unleash Your Company’s Competitive Spirit) (Pearson, 2016) received France’s best management book award in 2017.

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