In reply to Harold Jarche.

And I just came across this most interesting article from Fast Company on encouraging positive deviance (best practices?) to effect change. Positive deviance cannot just be copied and applied. It also needs to be done within groups that share attributes and self-identify. Even if positive deviance is effectively disseminated, it will change the goals: "The bell curve of performance keeps moving up, as long as you disseminate the best deviations across the curve and continue to discover new examples of positive deviance among the next group of best performers."