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Pascale, Richard T.
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Social problems.
Problem solving -- Social aspects.
Diffusion of innovations.
Social change.
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Pascale, Richard T.
Social problems.
Problem solving -- Social aspects.
Diffusion of innovations.
Social change.
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The power of positive deviance : how unlikely innovators solve the world's toughest problems / Richard T. Pascale, Jerry Sternin and Monique Sternin.
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Pascale, Richard T.
Harvard Business Press, c2010.
Call #:
362
.0425
P278p
Subjects
Social problems.
Problem solving -- Social aspects.
Diffusion of innovations.
Social change.
Series
Leadership for the common good.
ISBN:
9781422110669 (hc.)
1422110664 (hc.)
Alternate title:
Positive deviance : how unlikely innovators solve the world's toughest problems
Description:
xvi, 231 p. ; 25 cm.
Bibliography:
Includes bibliographical references (p. [209]-214) and index.
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.
Summary:
Outlines a problem solving approach that replaces traditional ideas of power and authority with a method that allows individuals to discover answers for themselves.
Other authors:
Sternin, Jerry.
Sternin, Monique.
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