There isn’t a best restaurant in the world.
Even Daniel Humm—the innovative chef and owner of Make It Nice which is behind Eleven Madison Park, a three-Michelin Stars restaurant which claimed the top spot on the World’s 50 Best Restaurants list in 2017—will tell you that there are many restaurants that are among the best*.
Oftentimes, there isn’t a best way to do something either, especially when you’re innovating.
Innovation is a space where best practices have a very short shelf life. Innovation is a practice of perpetually exploring and discovering new best practices.
In our pursuit of creating value and delivering excellence, we can become so fixated on the best way to do something that we lose sight of the fact that there are often many best ways to do something. We can be so insistent on following best practices of the past that we don’t see that they are incongruent with the future we are seeking to create and move towards.
When you let go of the story that there is a singular best way to do something, you open yourself up to curiosity and the possibility of discovering many best ways to innovate and keep innovating.
*Daniel mentioned this—along with many other insights related to innovation—in this episode of the podcast How I Built This with Guy Raz.
