Episode 3 | Is best practice good enough?
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Episode 3 | Is best practice good enough?
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About this listen
We’re back with episode three of A Little Bit Forward — short, five-minute episodes designed to slow you down, challenge familiar ideas, and create space for better thinking.
In this episode, Simon Waller takes on one of the most comfortable phrases in organisational life: best practice. He asks a deceptively simple question — is best practice actually good enough?
Drawing on real-world experience, Simon explores how “best practice” is often self-proclaimed, copied without context, and applied in complex systems where it simply doesn’t belong. What works in one place, at one time, for one group of people, can quietly fail somewhere else — sometimes with serious consequences.
This episode isn’t about finding a better model to copy. It’s about questioning our reliance on shortcuts, noticing where we trade understanding for convenience, and considering what that costs us over time.
Five minutes. One idea.
A small pause to think more deeply — and move, just a little bit forward.