Dear Susan/Peter,
Thanks for the very relevant and insightful article. While we attempt to flog the “best practices” horse, we indeed tend to often overlook the “horses for courses” adage.
As a question, how critical was Mickey Weiss’ physical/actual involvement as a “customizer” in the process and, as a corollary, which stage of the customization/adoption was his (& other successful program managers’) contribution most optimal?
I ask this in the context of “practitioner-to-practitioner” or joint learning models that intuitively make sense but somehow remain orphan innovations.
Thanks
Good question. Although we met frequently with Mickey across several years (and he visited Baltimore with us, our first adopter), he was not much involved in the customizing process. Among several extraordinary capabilities that Mickey had, though, he came to understand that his inaugural produce program in Los Angeles could not be copied elsewhere—except in its essential feature, which was to capture “edible-but-not-sellable” fresh produce and speed those foods to needy people. And, of course, his story—a retired guy who invented something important—was a continual source of inspiration to others.
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BY Debarshi Bhattacharya
ON May 5, 2011 05:23 AM
Dear Susan/Peter,
Thanks for the very relevant and insightful article. While we attempt to flog the “best practices” horse, we indeed tend to often overlook the “horses for courses” adage.
As a question, how critical was Mickey Weiss’ physical/actual involvement as a “customizer” in the process and, as a corollary, which stage of the customization/adoption was his (& other successful program managers’) contribution most optimal?
I ask this in the context of “practitioner-to-practitioner” or joint learning models that intuitively make sense but somehow remain orphan innovations.
Thanks
BY Susan Evans and Peter Clarke
ON May 19, 2011 11:51 AM
Good question. Although we met frequently with Mickey across several years (and he visited Baltimore with us, our first adopter), he was not much involved in the customizing process. Among several extraordinary capabilities that Mickey had, though, he came to understand that his inaugural produce program in Los Angeles could not be copied elsewhere—except in its essential feature, which was to capture “edible-but-not-sellable” fresh produce and speed those foods to needy people. And, of course, his story—a retired guy who invented something important—was a continual source of inspiration to others.
Susan Evans and Peter Clarke
BY Florentina
ON October 1, 2015 09:51 PM
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