Good to Great and the Social Sectors: A Monograph to Accompany Good to Great

Terrific summary of this great leadership book.

This book really gets you thinking. A great inspirational read.It provides a very different way to look at social businesses and the needfor multiple ways to view success

I would recommend buying this book first(Good to Great and the Social Sectors) rather than "Good to Great".This book summarises the Jim Collins theory and leaves out most of the research details and stories that are included in "Good to Great".The book is an easy read.I recommend it for people involved in business or the social sector.

20 copies arrived perect condition now with the Governing body to support our away day at teh end of May

Excellent and a good response to those who think business models automatically transfer to the social sector

Recommended by a friend. Arrived in excellent condition.

Very pleased, great item.

More or less what I expected in a U.S. text. Nevertheless, you are never to old to pick up several good ideas

After reading the book Good to Great, I had to take a year to understand some of its concepts and apply it to my personal life and work life. It has worked well so far. Now, I read this to be able to apply it to my consulting business for nonprofit, and it has given me an amazing framework to build upon. 'I have a clear idea of what a great organization should look like. Thank you for your work Jim Collins.

Writing with excellence as always, Collins brings a superb contextualization of his book Good to Great to Social Sectors. Must read for all social leaders.

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Interesting approach and diagnosis of what it takes to understand a truly successful social sector organization, and ghe drivers that it needs.

As someone who is finishing his undergraduate career, I found this monologue not only to be inspiring, but also helpful as I prepare to enter the workforce. I am interested in becoming involved in or starting a nonprofit, and I don’t think I could’ve gotten the concepts offered in this book anywhere else. In short, I felt empowered. In the monograph, Collins wrote that over the years he recognized that many business leaders entered into the social sector only to encounter failure. Seeking to solve this, he researched and compared successful businesses and social sector institutions to see what common elements made them survive—and where they fell. He outlines the steps these institutions took to separate them from the good and made them truly great. This research birthed Good to Great, and the monologue stands as a piece addressed to the hopeful social sector leaders amongst its readers. Its overall message seems to read, “Greatness isn’t what you might think it is, and here is how to achieve it.” Jim Collin’s writing is at once entertaining and clear. Even a junior high schooler could pick up his this piece and follow his logical and fluid wiring. His natural language and purposeful strut drew me in from the first page. Even though this was an accompanying monologue to Good to Great, he quickly ‘caught me up’ to the concepts presented in the book, relating them directly to the plight of the social sector. I was stunned by the clear comparisons in thinking that he drew between successful social sector institutions and businesses. In five very clear sections, Collins addresses separate issues that social sector leaders must address to form a successful social sector institution. They are as follows:1. “Defining “Great,”—Calibrating Success Without Business Metrics,”2. “Level 5 Leadership—Getting Things Done within a Diffuse Power Structure”3. “First Who—Getting The Right People On The Bus, Within Social Sector Constraints.”4. “The Hedgehog Concept—Rethinking the Economic Engine without a Profit Motive”5. “Turning the Flywheel—Building Momentum by Building the Brand”Each section’s issue addresses very important questions. For the social sectors, the first answers how greatness can be defined and pursued, the second helps show what extremely adept and effective leaders look like, the third helps show how to hire the right people, the fourth focuses on both on sustaining longevity and consistency, and the fifth talks about how to build momentum and create a bigger impact within the communities touched by a ‘social sector.’ In each issue, Collins uses real-world examples of great leaders and the decisions they made to steer their organizations towards greatness. From Tom Morris of the Cleveland Orchestra to William Bratton of the NYPD, a variety of examples edify Collins’ concepts. Combined with graphs and empirical data, his narrative walks the reader through the various hurtles faced by social sectors and businesses alike, and shows how a social sector responds to prevail and achieve greatness, from day one. Readers of this book will learn how to lead (and when not to,) how to measure success, how to recruit, how to find corporate purpose, how to rethink resources, and how to overcome crises. I think that calling this book ‘a manual solely for social sector leaders’ would not do its utility or its masterful breadth of coverage justice, even for its 31 page length. Collins eloquently nails ideas usually learned over years of trial-and-error. The monograph is testament to the genius of Collins and Good to Great, and the practical wisdom provided inside is more than worth its time. Jim Collins has provided the missing link for many who seek to venture into nonprofit careers or business. I would recommend this book to students and professionals alike, for the skills presented in this monologue. This book, in short, teaches you how to lead a team of people towards making an impact in a way that ethically utilizes resources and personnel, and sustain performance towards a state of accomplishment aforementioned as ‘great.’ I would highly recommend this book to you if you plan to run or organize a nonprofit.