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

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Additional authors
  1. Sternin, Jerry.
  2. Sternin, Monique.
Description
  1. xvi, 231 p.; 25 cm.
Summary
  1. 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
  1. Leadership for the common good
Uniform title
  1. Leadership for the common good.
Alternative title
  1. Positive deviance
Subject
  1. Social Change
  2. Problem Solving
  3. Social Problems
  4. Social problems
  5. Problem solving > Social aspects
  6. Diffusion of innovations
  7. Social change
  8. Diffusion of Innovation
  9. Public Health
  10. Malnutrition
  11. Cross Infection
Contents
  1. 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.
Owning institution
  1. Harvard Library
Bibliography (note)
  1. Includes bibliographical references and index.
Processing action (note)
  1. committed to retain