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The power of positive deviance : how unlikely innovators solve the world's toughest problems / Richard T. Pascale, Jerry Sternin, Monique Sternin.

Title
The power of positive deviance : how unlikely innovators solve the world's toughest problems / Richard T. Pascale, Jerry Sternin, Monique Sternin.
Author
Pascale, Richard T.
Publication
Boston, Mass. : Harvard Business Press, c2010.

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Additional Authors
  • Sternin, Jerry.
  • Sternin, Monique.
Description
xvi, 231 p.; 25 cm.
Summary
Outlines a problem solving approach that replaces traditional ideas of power and authority with a method that allows individuals to discover answers for themselves.
Series Statement
Leadership for the common good
Uniform Title
Leadership for the common good.
Alternative Title
Positive deviance
Subject
  • Social Change
  • Problem Solving
  • Social Problems
  • Social problems
  • Problem solving > Social aspects
  • Diffusion of innovations
  • Social change
  • Diffusion of Innovation
  • Public Health
  • Malnutrition
  • Cross Infection
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
Introduction: against all odds --Childhood malnutrition in Vietnam: from peril to possibility -- Female circumcision in Egypt: reconciling tradition and change -- Hospital infections: acting into a new way of thinking -- Early wins, squandered gains: pioneering the PD process at Merck -- Girl soldiers: reintegrating outcasts -- Infant mortality: the way to change a community (is not to engage in community change) -- Nature's way: invisible in plain sight.
ISBN
  • 9781422110669 (hbk. : alk. paper)
  • 1422110664 (hbk. : alk. paper)
LCCN
^^2009053370
OCLC
  • 441146685
  • SCSB-12215375
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library