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The author of the best-selling Good to Great turns his attention to the problems of the social and public sectors - and suggests how to improve them.
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'We must reject the idea - well-intentioned, but dead wrong - that the primary path to greatness in the social sectors is to become "more like a business".'
So begins this astonishingly blunt and timely manifesto by leading business thinker Jim Collins. Rejecting the belief, common among politicians, that all would be well in society if only the public sector operated more like the private sector, he sets out a radically new approach to creating successful hospitals, police forces, universities, charities, and other non-profit-making organisations. In the process he rejects many deep-rooted assumptions: that somehow it's possible to measure social bodies in purely financial terms; that they can be managed like traditional businesses; that they can be transformed simply by throwing money at them. Instead he argues for radical new attitudes and strategies, using the analytical approach and clear thinking that lie at the heart of Good to Great.
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11 of 11 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
This monography is about leadership, real leadership, not primarily leadership in business, but also leadership in the non-profit sector, which can be even more challenging.
Jim Collins is very direct in his stile. "... many widely practiced business norms fall somwhere between mediocre and good. Few are great."
The misunderstanding of using business-like concepts araises from the focus on earnings, instead of focus on output and resources.
"We need a new language." A new laguage that can describe the quality of output in a school system or in any other non-profit or public service funtion. The bottom line in a non-profit business is not earnings. It is well educated kids in the school system, high quality treamnet in the public hospitals, well caretaking of elderly in the elderly sector etc..
Lars Bitsch-Larsen
Jim Collins is very direct in his stile. "... many widely practiced business norms fall somwhere between mediocre and good. Few are great."
The misunderstanding of using business-like concepts araises from the focus on earnings, instead of focus on output and resources.
"We need a new language." A new laguage that can describe the quality of output in a school system or in any other non-profit or public service funtion. The bottom line in a non-profit business is not earnings. It is well educated kids in the school system, high quality treamnet in the public hospitals, well caretaking of elderly in the elderly sector etc..
Lars Bitsch-Larsen
6 of 6 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
I have worked in the private sector for a major multinational organisation for a number of years and am a great fan of "Good to Great". I was seconded into the development sector for a while and repeatedly heard how different the private and social sectors were and yet how anxious they were to become more business minded. My perspective was that the social sector is not as different as people think it is and that not every process in business is appropriate to be transfered. When I came across the Monograph it brought simple clarity to my unexpressed thoughts. So if you are in the Social sector and striving to set Missions, Visions and Goals, have a read of the Monograph. You might just decide you want to read the original Good to Great too!
I learned a lot from my secondment and now work across both sectors.
I learned a lot from my secondment and now work across both sectors.
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
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My former director encouraged me to read good to great in preparation for a job interview. It helped crystalise a lot of what I thought about what I wanted to achieve, but always wondered how to apply it to the public and voluntary sector. This monograph shows how it is possible.
I didn't get the job. But I got a much stronger convinction about the value of what great social sector organisations should be trying to achieve. And now I have got the promotion...
I didn't get the job. But I got a much stronger convinction about the value of what great social sector organisations should be trying to achieve. And now I have got the promotion...
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Short version of Good to Great
I would recommend buying this book first(Good to Great and the Social Sectors) rather than "Good to Great". Read more
Published 21 months ago by Don Lucey
Thought provoking
I like Jim Collin's books, always based on sound evidence and always comes up with something new you can take and use in the real world. Read more
Published 22 months ago by Ron Dougan
not for me
medical student
adviced to read this.
it was vague and ambiguous to me.
i think its just for business minds/workers.
adviced to read this.
it was vague and ambiguous to me.
i think its just for business minds/workers.
Published on 18 Aug 2009 by Ms. S. M. Elyas
Good things in small packages
This slim volume, which can be read in isolation from the original, and much more substantial, 'Good to Great', addresses that fundamental question which has beset many western... Read more
Published on 16 May 2009 by Steve Harpum
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