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The power of positive deviance : how unlikely innovators solve the world's toughest problems / Richard T. Pascale, Jerry Sternin, Monique Sternin.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Leadership for the common goodPublication details: Boston, Mass. : Harvard Business Press, c2010.Description: xvi, 231 p. ; 25 cmISBN:
  • 9781422110669 (hbk. : alk. paper)
  • 1422110664 (hbk. : alk. paper)
Other title:
  • Positive deviance
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 362.0425 22
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.
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Books Books Library, Independent University, Bangladesh (IUB) Reserve Shelf Non-fiction 362.0425 P279p 2010 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 01 Available 021062
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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.