Practice to be best

July 28th, 2010 admin

We may think we should adopt best practices , but to be really effective and innovative we need to practice to be best . First, we have to do the hard thinking  about how to do things better. Jay Deragon talks about how important it is to think about what we do and not just emulate others: Social Doo Doo’s are those that practice and …


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  1. July 31st, 2010 at 05:41
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    Good work ! Keep us posting, you are very good writer.

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