The Power of Positive Deviance

Reading only the first pages of this book i understood that the author have found very meaningful examples to show the real power of the positive deviance. There are many other examples of the positive deviance that the author couldn't now because they are in other countries. But i would like to explain this subject from the political point of view.
During the past communist regime, the Party was using the cases of positive deviance, people with very high results in all the fields of the economy, to create "living heroes". At that time those were really positive deviants because what they were doing was finding solutions for difficult problems where the others couldn't. I remember a farmer who reached to produce 300 kv of corn in only 10000 m square. That man was declared a hero and every farmer of Albania was supposed to get his example.
All these were lies (demagogy) because at that time all the energies of the system were canalized on those "positive deviants". Of course that with all that governmental support they must have been the positive deviants. But Who were the real positive deviants?
I think that the positive deviants were those people who were trying to earn living working 12 hours per day in cooperative and keeping their children well fed,well educated and healthy. The positive deviants were those workers, innovator ones which in those primitive technological conditions were producing necessitous goods for the rest of Albanians. Other positive deviants were those intellectuals who with their creations were trying to opened the eyes of the people about the regime where they were living (ps. Ismail Kadare). All of them were not leaders but all individually found solutions for their problems and were worthy to be followed.