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- This monograph is a response to questions raised by readers in the social sector. It is not a new book.
- Jim Collins wants to avoid any confusion about the monograph being a book by limiting its distribution to online retailers.
- Based on interviews and workshops with over 100 social sector leaders.
- The difference between successful organizations is not between the business and the social sector, the difference is between good organizations and great ones.
About the Author
Jim Collins is a student and teacher of enduring great companies -- how they grow, how they attain superior performance, and how good companies can become great companies. Having invested over a decade of research into the topic, Jim has co-authored three books, including the classic Built to Last, a fixture on the Business Week bestseller list for more than five years, generating over 70 printings and translations into 16 languages. His work has been featured in Fortune, The Economist, Business Week, USA Today, Industry Week, Inc., Harvard Business Review and Fast Company.
Driven by a relentless curiosity, Jim began his research and teaching career on the faculty at Stanford Graduate School of Business, where he received the Distinguished Teaching Award in 1992. In 1995, he founded a management laboratory in Boulder, Colorado, where he now conducts multi-year research projects and works with executives from the private, public, and social sectors.
Jim has served as a teacher to senior executives and CEOs at corporations that include: Starbucks Coffee, Merck, Patagonia, American General, W.L. Gore, and hundreds more. He has also worked with the non-corporate sector such as the Leadership Network of Churches, Johns Hopkins Medical School, the Boys & Girls Clubs of America and The Peter F. Drucker Foundation for Non-Profit Management.
Jim invests a significant portion of his energy in large-scale research projects -- often five or more years in duration -- to develop fundamental insights and then translate those findings into books, articles and lectures. He uses his management laboratory to work directly with executives and to develop practical tools for applying the concepts that flow from his research.
In addition, Jim is an avid rock climber and has made free ascents of the West Face of El Capitan and the East Face of Washington Column in Yosemite Valley.
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars
Good to Great Social Sectors,
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This review is from: Good To Great And The Social Sectors: A Monograph to Accompany Good to Great (Paperback)
Oustanding. only 34 pages and he makes is points very clearly. I really liked the original Good to Great but this fits the sector that I work in and will help many/
4 of 7 people found the following review helpful
4.0 out of 5 stars
very good work,
By Asia-affairs-watcher (Hong Kong and Toronto) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Good To Great And The Social Sectors: A Monograph to Accompany Good to Great (Paperback)
Collins does a superb job in this book. He has very provocative ideas on how to improve the public sector, which is all needed. Maybe his scope can be expanded, for, in so many nations, the social sectors are badly performaning. Especially in developing nations like China and India, such work is urgently needed. To understand about the larger issue, I recommend one nice book: China's global reach: markets, multinationals, and globalization by a Chinese journalist George Zhibin Gu, which reveals that there is so much to be done in the Chinese public sector, among other issues.
1 of 4 people found the following review helpful
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Just wish it was longer with more case studies,
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This review is from: Good To Great And The Social Sectors: A Monograph to Accompany Good to Great (Paperback)
A tremendous little volume. I'm especially intrigued by Collins' suggestion that business leaders may have more to learn from the social sector than the other way around, in a multi-stakeholder era where leadership-by-command is eroding. A nice antidote to the claim that governments and the social sector should be run like a business.
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