ZRX1200 wrote:And is “Best Practices” the new corporate catch phrase of the day?
Yes. Teams is good when you are in a meeting with a trusted, like minded person, and you have contests on if you can make the other crack a smile of laugh @ $1 a pop. Great side-hustle.
Best Practices has been in the midwestern vernacular since the early 2011. So it was likely a early 2000's phenomenon in New York and L.A.
In my experience, it was used predominately by Directors and VPs and
strongly suggested course of action, without making a directive. It gives them wriggle room so they aren't accountable for unforeseen circumstances the BP may create.
Also gives them the ticket to come down on subordinates not hitting goals because of any variation from the Best Practice. Also shortens future compensation percentages for those not following.
Even more fun if you
don't follow the BP, find a better, more profitable approach. Then you get points for Outside the Box thinking, and an Exceeds Expectations rating, at the cost of the people who followed the flawed, BP approach.
Then the Directors/VP take what you did, take credit themselves.
Corporate PTSD (rocking back and forth, mumbling to myself)... Create Value Streams & Economies of Scale! SHIFT THE PARADIGM!!
AAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!