Putting positive deviance to work

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Manjari Raman New Delhi
Last Updated : Jan 28 2013 | 2:19 AM IST
 Issues such as stress, uncertainty, de-motivation, crisis or failure dominated the organisation behaviour agenda. It was almost as if any time experts peered closely at organisations to improve their performance, they donned gloom-tinted glasses first, to highlight the flaws. The assumption was that the path to improving performance lay in identifying what is wrong
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First Published: Sep 19 2003 | 12:00 AM IST