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The Power of Positive Deviance: How Unlikely Innovators Solve the World's Toughest Problems

by Richard Pascale, Jerry Sternin, and others. Harvard Business Review Press, 2010.

This resource introduces positive deviance as an ideal problem-solving model, describing how it works and situations where positive deviance has been used.

Offerings

principles of positive deviance, situations to apply positive deviance

Best For

clergy and lay leaders of any faith tradition

Cost

purchase as a book or e-book

Suggested Uses

  • Find creative solutions to congregational challenges using an already-existing resource by utilizing the principles of positive deviance.

About the Contributor

Contributor
Tim Shapiro

Tim is president of the Indianapolis Center for Congregations – of which the CRG is a program. He began serving the Center in 2003 after 18 years in pastoral ministry. He holds degrees from Purdue University and Louisville Presbyterian Theological Seminary. Tim’s interest in how congregations learn to do new things is represented in his book How Your Congregation Learns.

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