The power of positive deviance
Subtitle: how unlikely innovators solve the world's toughest problems
By: Richard T. Pascale, Jerry Sternin, Monique Sternin.
Contributors: Sternin, Jerry.; Sternin, Monique.
Publisher: Harvard Business Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Boston, MA
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781422110669
Subjects: Social problems; Problem solving -- Social aspects; Diffusion of innovations; Social change
Table of contents: title: Childhood malnutrition: peril and a glimpse of possibility; title: Female circumcision: reconciling tradition and change; title: Hospital infections: acting into a new way of thinking; title: Early wins, squandered gains: pioneering the PD process at Merck; title: Girl soldiers: reintegration of outcasts; title: Infant mortality: the way to change a community (is not to engage in community change); title: Nature's way: invisible in plain sight.