Best Practices Are Lying to You

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Best practices sound reassuring.
They promise certainty, control, and proven answers.

They also fail—quietly and consistently.

After 47 years spanning Wall Street, healthcare, technology, and organizational leadership, Doug Sparks has seen the same patterns repeat across industries: smart people, good intentions, and systems that still don’t work the way they’re supposed to.

This book explains why.

Not with theory.
Not with jargon.
And definitely not with preaching.

Best Practices Are Lying to You explores how real systems behave once incentives, scale, complexity, and human behavior enter the picture. It’s a practical, conversational guide to understanding why the “right” solution so often produces the wrong result—and what actually makes systems resilient.

Inside, you’ll discover:

• Why incentives shape behavior more than mission statements ever will
• Why technology amplifies problems before it fixes them
• Why healthcare, finance, and organizations fail in surprisingly similar ways
• Why designing for real humans beats designing for ideal ones
• Why control feels good—and usually backfires

Written with clarity, humility, and a touch of humor, this book is for leaders, professionals, clinicians, technologists, and anyone who has ever wondered why doing everything “right” still didn’t work.

If you’ve felt the friction but couldn’t quite name it, this book will feel uncomfortably familiar—in the best possible way.

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