The Power of Positive Deviance

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How Unlikely Innovators Solve the World's Toughest Problems

By Richard Pascale and Jerry Sternin and Monique Sternin

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The Power of Positive Deviance introduces a novel approach to solving difficult organisational and community problems by focusing on the few individuals who find uncommon solutions. Through vivid, real-life examples – from reducing malnutrition in Vietnam to tackling hospital infections – the authors demonstrate how leveraging these positive deviants can inspire effective and sustainable change.

The book outlines practical strategies such as mobilising communities to uncover hidden solutions, adopting action-based approaches to change, and overcoming institutional resistance that maintains the status quo.
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This insightful guide is ideal for leaders, educators, community organisers, and professionals seeking innovative, grassroots methods to resolve complex challenges within their organisations or communities.

Shows the phenomenal success of the positive-deviance approach in alleviating some of the world's toughest, most complicated and diverse problems such as malnutrition in Vietnam, female circumcision in Egypt (a practice dating back thousands of years), and the rise of MRSA infections in hospitals around the world.

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Think of the toughest problems in your organisation or community. What if they'd already been solved and you didn't even know it?

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:

Mobilising 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 organisational "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.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781422110669

Publisher: Harvard Business Review Press

Format: Hardback

Date Published: 16 June 2010

Country: United States

Imprint: Harvard Business Review Press

Illustration: Illustrations

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Width: 155.0mm

Height: 209.0mm

Weight: 467g

Pages: 256

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Business & Entrepreneurship Business Leadership & Management Education & Reference Jerry Sternin Monique Sternin Non-Fiction Richard Pascale

About the Author

Richard Pascale is a writer, a leading business consultant worldwide, and an associate fellow of Templeton College, Oxford University, England. He co-authored Surfing the Edge of Chaos: The Laws of Nature and the New Laws of Business, and the best-selling The Art of Japanese Management, with Anthony Athos. He was on the faculty of Stanford Business School for twenty years, and has written numerous articles for leading business management publications. Jerry and Monique Sternin, are the world's leading experts in the application of Positive Deviance as a tool for addressing social and behavioral change. The Sternins pioneered the approach in Viet Nam in 1990 and have spent the past two decades making the approach accessible to millions of people in more than 25 countries around the world. Sadly, Jerry Sternin died in December 2008.