What is Positive Deviance? In every community there are certain individuals (the "Positive Deviants") whose special practices/ strategies/ behaviors enable them to find better ...

Positive Deviance (PD) is an approach to personal, organizational and cultural change based on the idea that every community or group of people performing a similar function has ...

Nutrition Field Guide. The Positive Deviance field guide is a great resource for anyone interested in getting an idea of how this approach is used in the field.

From this research came the idea of "amplifying positive deviance" -- a theory that Sternin and his wife, Monique, put to the test in the 1990s in a dramatically different setting:

Positive Deviance in Child Nutrition - with emphasis on Psychosocial and Behavioural Aspects and Implications for Development

The University of Michigan Business School's ten academic areas are comprised of 130 faculty members. You can learn about our research activity, access the faculty directory, and ...

Positive Deviance In November 2007, Lisa Kimball and Linda Barker led two workshops on Positive Deviance. Positive Deviance (PD) is a natural change process that comes from ...

Positive Deviance, Part 1 By David Ollier Weber. Quality improvement generally doesn't work unless the stakeholders decide on the project, find role models who exemplify good ...

Why stop at positive deviance? Positive deviants - ?star performers? - bring value to any organization. Their knowledge and, often, passion can spread to others and have a ...

Summary, forum, tips and full explanation of Positive Deviance (Pascale Sternin). Using Indigenous Change Agents. - 12manage