Here’s the description of what that call is about:

Lean and Positive Deviance: Perfect Together or Irreconcilable Differences? 
 
Guests: Sharon Benjamin and Deanna Suskovich
 
Lean is a change process that encourages a management goal of highest value for the customer and the elimination of waste through out an entire system rather than seeking to optimize separate departments and technologies. The idea is that by identifying and maintaining focus on value in each step of an organization’s  work,  the organization can create processes that produce the best results with less human effort, less capital and less time.  

Positive Deviance (PD) is a behavior change process based on the belief that in every community there are individuals and groups who solve problems better than peers with the same resources.  Once those successful practices are discovered, they will be accepted by a whole community more readily than directives imposed from the outside. Both approaches rely on small tests of measurable change for improvement.  This and other similarities provide opportunities and confusion.

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Recently several thinkers have thought about the four day work week and even mede several live experiences of a 32 hour work week in small medium and large businesses. In all cases not only did the productivity incrase but it grew so much that even with fewer work hours the total production increased. Ho’s that possible: more time to think about problems, job rotation rendered necessary to fill the absentee tasks made all workers aware od thier coleagues tasks, and even in the foremen or manager’s positions it gave some people the occasion to be in the “driver’s sit” at least once a week for a day, insuring a smoother labour organisation.

The French example of the 35 hours week was a terrible mistake because 35 hours a week disorganized far too much the planning as it meant four and a half day working week, which was a very cumbersome organisation burden, especially in day and night services such as hospitals and elderly nursing homes. It didn’t justify mutual replacements so no mutual teaching/learning experiences took place, and a halfday free per week didn’t create much free time to think