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 ...
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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