"The Power of Positive Deviance: How Unlikely Innovators Solve the World’s Toughest Problems" by Richard Pascale, Jerry Sternin, + Monique Sternin (2010) (http://bit.ly/2LdLd6h)

"The hardest thing for trained field workers is believing in their hearts that ignorant, poor, uneducated people can have answers the trained people never dreamed of. Every field worker or facilitator carries internalized expectations about how we add value. Relinquishing the need to prove one's competence is difficult. Experts are 'answers' looking for problems to solve. Positive deviance practitioners, on the other hand, are community mobilizers who catalyze others' empowerment. Group conversations are the means for translating these intentions into action. 'Solving the problem' is secondary to tapping the distributed intelligence of the community to discover its own latent wisdom" (p. 164).

References:

"7 Habits of Highly Effective People" by Stephen Covey (http://bit.ly/3cAo4Gx)

Dr. Christopher Emdin (https://chrisemdin.com)

Michael Lipset of PassTell Stories (http://www.michaellipset.com/)

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