In The Power of Positive Deviance, authors Richard Pascale, Jerry Sternin, and Monique Sternin take their readers on a fascinating tour to learn about “positive deviance”—an approach to solving social ...

What does saving Vietnamese children from malnutrition have in common with pharma marketing? It may surprise you to learn that an approach pioneered in Vietnamese villages by two Save the Children ...

advertisement 06-29-2007 TECH Positive Deviance — A Surgeon’s Notes It’s hard not to be both amazed and irritated by the career of Atul Gawande. Most of us struggle along in a single profession; ...

Richard Pascale, associate fellow of Said Business School at Oxford University and coauthor of “The Power of Positive Deviance.” Featured Guest: Richard Pascale, associate fellow of Said Business ...

A hand hygiene initiative that used positive deviance, a community-based social change strategy, led to a 33.3 percent increase in hand hygiene compliance and 43.2 percent decrease in the ...

MRSA (methicillin-resistant staphylococcus aureus) is on the run at Albert Einstein Medical Center in Philadephia and five other health care sites, thanks to an approach called "Positive Deviance." ...

Charles Darwin's revolutionary ideas about evolution are once again making waves, but this time in a way that offers governments and other organizations a tool for overcoming systemic challenges ...

Weight counseling for adults is uncommonly performed by primary-care providers (PCPs), despite recommendations. In order to design effective primary-care interventions, a full understanding of the ...