Good To Great And The Social Sectors: A Monograph to Accompany Good to Great
By Jim Collins
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Building upon the concepts introduced in Good to Great, Jim Collins answers the most commonly asked questions raised by his readers in the social sectors. Using information gathered from interviews with over 100 social sector leaders, Jim Collins shows that his "Level 5 Leader" and other good-to-great principles can help social sector organizations make the leap to greatness.
Jim Collins
Jim Collins is a student and teacher of what makes great companies tick, and a Socratic advisor to leaders in the business and social sectors. Having invested more than a quarter-century in rigorous research, he has authored or coauthored six books that have sold in total more than 10 million copies worldwide. They include Good to Great, Built to Last, How the Mighty Fall, and Great by Choice. Driven by a relentless curiosity, Jim began his research and teaching career on the faculty at the Stanford Graduate School of Business, where he received the Distinguished Teaching Award in 1992. In 1995, he founded a management laboratory in Boulder, Colorado. In addition to his work in the business sector, Jim has a passion for learning and teaching in the social sectors, including education, healthcare, government, faith-based organizations, social ventures, and cause-driven nonprofits. In 2012 and 2013, he had the honor to serve a two-year appointment as the Class of 1951 Chair for the Study of Leadership at the United States Military Academy at West Point. In 2017, Forbes selected Jim as one of the 100 Greatest Living Business Minds. Jim has been an avid rock climber for more than forty years and has completed single-day ascents of El Capitan and Half Dome in Yosemite Valley. Learn more about Jim and his concepts at his website, where you’ll find articles, videos, and useful tools. jimcollins.com
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- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Easy to understand and addresses an important niche (how to build great organizations in the non-profit or social sector).
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- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5This book is really a couple of chapters that should be read along with the original book. For someone like me who is running a not-for-profit, it gives a lot to think about. How do we measure not-for-profits differently than for-profit organizations. Why do we treat not-for-profits as if they shouldn't strive to make as much money as possible? The more money I make, the more change I can bring about in the community. This is a book that will simmer in the back of my brain and help me do a better job of managing our mission.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Insightful addition to the original book which was excellent
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5A compliment to Good to Great for non-profits and social organizations. This is not a replacement but rather a supliment for Good to Great. Read that first to understand the concepts and then read how Collins applies them to social sectors.
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Good To Great And The Social Sectors - Jim Collins
WHY BUSINESS THINKING
IS NOT THE ANSWER
GOOD TO GREAT
AND THE
SOCIAL SECTORS
A Monograph to Accompany
Good to Great
Why Some Companies
Make the Leap …
and Others Don’t
JIM COLLINS
Contents
Cover
Title Page
GOOD TO GREAT AND THE SOCIAL SECTORS
NOTES
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Books by Jim Collins
Back Ad
AUTHOR’S NOTE
Copyright
About the Publisher
GOOD TO GREAT AND THE SOCIAL SECTORS
Why Business Thinking Is Not the Answer
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.
Most businesses—like most of anything else in life—fall somewhere between mediocre and good. Few are great. When you compare great companies with good ones, many widely practiced business norms turn out to correlate with mediocrity, not greatness. So, then, why would we want to import the practices of mediocrity into the social sectors?
I shared this perspective with a gathering of business CEOs, and offended nearly everyone in the room. A hand shot up from David Weekley, one of the more thoughtful CEOs—a man who built a very successful company and who now spends nearly half his time working with the social sectors. Do you have evidence to support your point?
he demanded. In my work with nonprofits, I find that they’re in desperate need of greater discipline—disciplined planning, disciplined people, disciplined governance, disciplined allocation of resources.
"What makes you think that’s a business concept? I replied.
Most businesses also have a desperate need for greater discipline. Mediocre companies rarely display the relentless culture of discipline—disciplined people who engage in disciplined thought and who take disciplined action—that we find in truly great companies. A culture of discipline is not a principle of business; it is a principle of greatness."
Later, at dinner, we continued our debate, and I asked Weekley: If you had taken a different path in life and become, say, a church leader, a university president, a nonprofit leader, a hospital CEO, or a school superintendent, would you have been any less disciplined in your approach? Would you have been less likely to practice enlightened leadership, or put less energy into getting the right people on the bus, or been less demanding of results?
Weekley considered the question for a long moment. No, I suspect not.
That’s when it dawned on me: we need a new language. The critical distinction is not between business and social, but between great and good. We need to reject the naïve imposition of the language of business
on the social sectors, and instead jointly embrace a language of greatness.
That’s what our work is about: building a framework of greatness, articulating timeless principles that explain why some become great and others do not. We derived these principles from a rigorous matched-pair research method, comparing companies that became great with companies that did not. Our work is not fundamentally about business; it is about what separates great from good.
THE GOOD-TO-GREAT MATCHED-PAIR RESEARCH METHOD