The Power of Positive Deviance: How Unlikely Innovators solve the World’s toughest problems?
“In every community there are certain individuals whose uncommon practices/behaviors enable them to find better solutions to problems than their neighbors who have access to the same resources“
Has anybody thought how many positive deviants we meet in our daily life or maybe it is us but we dont know it yet:
Room too dark using compact fluorescents? - I can fix that!
Bookshelf cracking under the weight? - I can fix that!Has anybody thought how many positive deviants we meet in our daily life or maybe it is us but we dont know it yet:
Room too dark using compact fluorescents? - I can fix that!
Cables falling behind the table? - I can fix it!
Desk overloaded? - I can fix it!
We even do not notice in our daily or business life our positive deviance, but it is so simple, it is just so difficult to distinguish the problem and then to believe in ourselves to solve it. This book just shape the path for us how to find the solution, e.g. by introducing the rule of four D’s: define, determine, descover and design.
And if we even can start with small things (as shown above) little by little we will gain much, everything is being built brick by brick. But without starting we will never be able to understand our real strength and potential.
To my positive devianted classmates,
Tatiana
Hi Tatiana,
ReplyDeleteReally nice examples and methods in explaining the positive deviant, where you very kindly mentioned that we may be us sometimes the positive deviant and we are not aware.
This happens because of your statement;
"It is just so difficult to distinguish the problem and then to believe in ourselves to solve it".
It is important also to react when you see the solution of a problem in order to resolve it.
Thank you!
hello together,
ReplyDeletein order to solve a problem first you need to identify if it is a problem and than to see what are the possible solution, finding the right solution, implementing it and at the and Analyzing all steps.
i think that a lot people skip the first step and in my opinion this point is very important.
regards,
Idi Sulo
Dear Tanja,
ReplyDeleteI like very much your idea regarding Positive Deviance and I totally agree with you that first we have to find the problem even it can be difficult and then start to fix it. What stops us is the fear if we would be able to solve it. But you are right when you write that if we start with small thing in the end we will gain too much.
Thank you,