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Good to Great And the Social Sectors Book Summary - Book Review

Good to Great and the Social Sectors Book Summary Notes
Greatness is not a function of circumstance. Greatness, it turns out, is largely a matter of conscious choice and discipline
Issue 1: Defining “Great”—Calibrating Success without Business Metrics

A great organization is one that delivers superior performance and makes a distinctive impact [...]

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Directors and Coordinators Meeting

Today was our directors and coordinators meeting and the agenda today was to read and discuss Good to Great and the Social Sectors by Jim Collins. Most of us read the book when it came out but we never had a discussion as a staff. I was surprised again by how [...]

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How do you motivate an organization to tackle a BHAG?

If you have laid out a BHAG (Big Hairy Audacious Goal from Built to Last by Jim Collins) to your organization and it isn’t going as well as you thought it would, what is a leader to do? There was an interesting article this week by George Borst, President and CEO, Toyota Financial Services Gallup [...]

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