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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.

Description

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

Features

principles of positive deviance, situations to apply positive deviance

Recommended Audience

Clergy and lay leaders

Cost

Purchase as a book or e-book

Practical Applications

  • 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 Shapiro is the Indianapolis Center’s president. He began serving the Center in 2003 after 18 years in pastoral ministry. For 14 years, Tim served Westminster Presbyterian Church in Xenia, Ohio. Prior to his pastorate at Westminster, he was pastor of Bethlehem Presbyterian Church in Logansport, Indiana. 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 LearnsAfter his extensive work on the Center’s Sacred Space initiative, Tim co-authored the book Holy Places: Matching Sacred Space with Mission and MessageHe has also authored several articles, including Applying Positive Deviance and The Congregation of Theological Coherence.

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