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 ...

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 ...

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; ...

Researchers have found positive deviance made a significant impact on infection prevention efforts, according to a New Jersey Institute of Technology news release. Read the full report in Becker’s ASC ...

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." ...

Your team needs disrupters, rebels, challengers, and deviants to help it evolve and survive. That’s the main premise of my earlier article on Why The Highest Performing Teams Always Fail Over Time.

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 ...

A significant proportion of Uganda’s women of reproductive age and children under the age of five years still suffer and die from acute and chronic malnutrition. A significant proportion of Uganda’s ...

Nearly a decade ago I wrote a blog on the Aurora shooting. Thousands of people have since been victims of gun-related violence—often, young adults and children have been both perpetrators and victims.

In this study, qualitative methods are used to gain a broader understanding of overall dimensions of salesperson deviant behaviors. Then reactions to the behaviors by others are explored, and ...