Pascale, Richard T.
The power of positive deviance : how unlikely innovators solve the world's toughest problems / Positive deviance Richard T. Pascale, Jerry Sternin, Monique Sternin. - Boston, Mass. : Harvard Business Press, c2010. - xvi, 231 p. ; 25 cm. - Leadership for the common good .
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.
9781422110669 (hbk. : alk. paper) 1422110664 (hbk. : alk. paper)
2009053370
GBB049930 bnb
015529873 Uk
Social problems.
Problem solving--Social aspects.
Diffusion of innovations.
Social change.
HN18.3 / .P38 2010
362/.0425
The power of positive deviance : how unlikely innovators solve the world's toughest problems / Positive deviance Richard T. Pascale, Jerry Sternin, Monique Sternin. - Boston, Mass. : Harvard Business Press, c2010. - xvi, 231 p. ; 25 cm. - Leadership for the common good .
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.
9781422110669 (hbk. : alk. paper) 1422110664 (hbk. : alk. paper)
2009053370
GBB049930 bnb
015529873 Uk
Social problems.
Problem solving--Social aspects.
Diffusion of innovations.
Social change.
HN18.3 / .P38 2010
362/.0425
