Wynn illuminates many counterproductive practices, and, at its best, her book shows how economic deprivation, bad schools, absent parents, deteriorating neighborhoods and dissolving job prospects can grow into petty criminal activity or drug addiction and how that, inevitably, inexorably, leads to jail.
Letting go of that hands-on mindset is something that a lot of entrepreneurs struggle with, and that struggle can often lead to retaining counterproductive practices in a new position.
Draconian measures without clearly established justification would be not only wrong in principle but counterproductive in practice.
Censoring or preventing the public from obtaining material that has not been proven to be harmful or obscene is indefensible in principle and is often counterproductive in practice.
Mr Obama, meanwhile, wants to raise taxes on oil producers, and give some of the proceeds to help those hardest hit by the rise in energy prices.Oil or nothingBoth these ideas may sound good to audiences on the campaign trail, but are likely to prove counterproductive in practice.
The fight against other forms of discrimination can be justified on the same economic grounds.A rainbow of reasonsBut even if it can be justified in principle, Mr Kim's focus on gay rights is likely to be counterproductive in practice, for three reasons.
But it turned out to be fairly counterproductive in practice.
Many educators say the result is ineffective and counterproductive classroom practices.
Similarly, local counterproductive treatment practices were discouraged and alternatives were recommended, for instance a public health advises message: "Do not urinate on a convulsed child but take her to a health facility immediately" (" Usimkojolee mtoto mwenye degedege ila mpeleke kituo cha afya mara moja").
