Organisations tend to see rebels as troublemakers – but suppressing these individuals and their ideas could backfire. In the 1980s, a group of young engineers at Nasa’s Johnson Space Center in Houston ...
The concept of positive deviance (Sternin & Choo, 2000; Wishik & Van der Vynckt, 1976) is that in any community faced with a problem, there are likely to be some individuals who are successful because ...
Some business problems--lackluster performance, escalating costs, interdepartmental conflict--persist no matter how hard companies try to fix them. Why? Most leaders impose top-down change ...
A new low-cost method is being used to help developing countries worldwide solve key health problems according to a recent advocacy piece co-authored by a BYU professor. Kirk Dearden, associate ...
Recent research revealed “positive deviants” in the healthcare setting may help improve MRSA infection rates, according to a New Jersey Institute of Technology news release. The research focus ...
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 ...
Professor Andy Ofori-Birikorang, Acting Pro-Vice Chancellor of the University of Education Winneba (UEW), has underscored the need for women to strive to become positive deviant in the transformation ...
Organisations tend to see rebels as troublemakers – but suppressing these individuals and their ideas could backfire. In the 1980s, a group of young engineers at Nasa’s Johnson Space Center in Houston ...
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