On the topic of changing the game

The other day I read an interesting article by Shane Snow on "best practices" - how it represents one of the universal solutions of today: to search for particular best practices within one's industry in order to achieve excellent results. But Snow's point is actually thought provoking - as Snow puts it:

Best practices don’t make you the best. They make you the average of everyone else who follows them.

It is actually in line with the Muriel Strode quote that I took into account when arguing against copying the achievements of great people. If you walk in the footsteps of others; if you follow other people's best practices, or for that matter: if you copy the acheivements of great people - you will never become the person whose feet leave the footprints, never become the one who sets best practices; or the great person, whose achievements other people dream of copying - you just become someone who follows.
Whereas the one who tries to innovate and solve problems, which were never resolved before, puts oneself in the position, on which Snow says, "it's the way games get changed instead of simply played".
 And that would probably be the position which you would like the most, if you had the choice?
(Translated from Noget om at ændre spillet, originally published March 19, 2016)