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Few consulting “tools” are more widely abused these days than so-called best practices. It’s no wonder most banks, supermarkets, airlines, retailers, and consulting firms look astonishingly similar—they’ve been busy copying each other’s best practices for decades. The problem with best practices is this: that approach lulls people into thinking that a best practice really exists that can be successfully transplanted. Here are four reasons you should dump best practices.