Best practices travel badly because "best" was only true in the original context

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The same training program lands differently in two offices — context does more work than content Muscle memory beats lecture memory — skill lives in doing not in knowing Reading twelve books on negotiation changes my behavior less than one uncomfortable real negotiation When the last engineer who understands a legacy system retires what is lost that no document captures? Cross-generation transfer in family firms fails the same way it fails in engineering teams: the heir assumes they already know Craft knowledge dies with the last practitioner because apprenticeship was the only archive it ever had Implementation science exists because proven methods still take decades to spread and incentives explain most of the delay Tacit expertise sticks to people not documents and no incentive scheme has ever pried it loose The people who most need to hear something are usually the least likely to ask for it Knowledge moves fastest when it travels with people rather than documents