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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.

By: Contributor(s): Series: Leadership for the common goodPublication details: Boston, Mass. : Harvard Business Press, c2010.Description: xvi, 231 p. ; 25 cmISBN:
  • 9781422110669 :
  • 1422110664 :
Other title:
  • Positive deviance
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • HN18.3 .P38 2010
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.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [209]-214) and index.

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.

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