The Power of Positive Deviance: How Unlikely Innovators Solve the World's Toughest Problems
Richard T. Pascale, Jerry Sternin, Monique Sternin
Language: English
Published by Harvard Business Press, 2010
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When business managers look to solve complex problems in the workplace, they typically look to experts to get the job done, but in doing so, they neglect an important constituency of problem solvers - 'positive deviants.' Positive deviants are individuals who live and work under the same constraints as everyone else and who still find a way to succeed despite the odds. In their helpful and eye-opening book 'The Power of Positive Deviance,' authors Richard Pascale, Jerry Sternin, and Monique Sternin reveal a powerful and unconventional approach for change that will have you thinking.
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- Title
- The Power of Positive Deviance: How Unlikely Innovators Solve the World's Toughest Problems
- Author
- Richard T. Pascale, Jerry Sternin, Monique Sternin
- Publisher
- Harvard Business Press
- Publication year
- 2010
- Condition
- Good
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 1422110664
- ISBN 13
- 9781422110669
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- BUSINESS-MANAGEMENT
In The Power of Positive Deviance, the authors present a counterintuitive new approach to problem-solving. Their advice? Leverage positive deviants--the few individuals in a group who find unique ways to look at, and overcome, seemingly insoluble difficulties. By seeing solutions where others don't, positive deviants spread and sustain needed change.
With vivid, firsthand stories of how positive deviance has alleviated some of the world's toughest problems (malnutrition in Vietnam, staph infections in hospitals), the authors illuminate its core practices, including:
· Mobilizing communities to discover "invisible" solutions in their midst
· Using innovative designs to "act" your way into a new way of thinking instead of thinking your way into a new way of acting
· Confounding the organizational "immune response" seeking to sustain the status quo
Inspiring and insightful, The Power of Positive Deviance unveils a potent new way to tackle the thorniest challenges in your own company and community.
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