List Price: $14.99 Details

Save: $4.20 (28%)

No Import Fees Deposit & $9.20 Shipping to Canada Details

Delivery June 13 - 19

Or fastest delivery Wednesday, June 14. Order within 17 hrs 15 mins

In Stock

[{"displayPrice":"$10.79","priceAmount":10.79,"currencySymbol":"$","integerValue":"10","decimalSeparator":".","fractionalValue":"79","symbolPosition":"left","hasSpace":false,"showFractionalPartIfEmpty":true,"offerListingId":"fuShndVpSzxHs8U%2FD5fhH8whP8%2B7VWEHzIQ8AbQNhuWMe%2BKOVy62wZZKP0UUBEq1vF1W1UxKMnFlk%2BiYJFXTdbtGC%2F2fXOHpKymDxGPb8QPDbjBL1la8I%2FdJ8jxgyU%2BEj4CXxVFZsoQ%3D","locale":"en-US","buyingOptionType":"NEW"},{"displayPrice":"$6.20","priceAmount":6.20,"currencySymbol":"$","integerValue":"6","decimalSeparator":".","fractionalValue":"20","symbolPosition":"left","hasSpace":false,"showFractionalPartIfEmpty":true,"offerListingId":"fuShndVpSzxHs8U%2FD5fhH8whP8%2B7VWEHCSTzTZywx%2BGk%2FxyQJ14hdS3PYlmwXFTc617N9MFAhemjgzl%2FdHmjUTvLZInA6BCKXhcUBC7ThAyNo1NSu7djKapoB%2FmQPGpwzGluCxjLVyebXbG8eybRHYgNyVvpQrlfGlouS%2Ba8snAua3R%2FbtzHw9nYVxE%2FhmYc","locale":"en-US","buyingOptionType":"USED"},{"displayPrice":"$10.79","priceAmount":10.79,"currencySymbol":"$","integerValue":"10","decimalSeparator":".","fractionalValue":"79","symbolPosition":"left","hasSpace":false,"showFractionalPartIfEmpty":true,"offerListingId":null,"locale":"en-US","buyingOptionType":"PICKUP"}]

$$10.79 () Includes selected options. Includes initial monthly payment and selected options. Details

Payment

Secure transaction

Ships from

Amazon.com

Sold by

Amazon.com

Returns

Eligible for Return, Refund or Replacement within 30 days of receipt

Details

Payment

Secure transaction

We work hard to protect your security and privacy. Our payment security system encrypts your information during transmission. We don’t share your credit card details with third-party sellers, and we don’t sell your information to others. Learn more

Ships from

Amazon.com

Sold by

Amazon.com

Returns

Eligible for Return, Refund or Replacement within 30 days of receipt

This item can be returned in its original condition for a full refund or replacement within 30 days of receipt.

Read full return policy

Add a gift receipt for easy returns

Delivery Monday, June 19

Or fastest delivery Wednesday, June 14. Order within 18 hrs 45 mins

Deliver to Canada

Used: Very Good | Details

Sold by Jenson Books Inc

Fulfilled by Amazon

Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items.

Have one to sell?

Sell on Amazon

Other Sellers on Amazon

Added

Not added

$17.00
+ $9.20 shipping

Sold by: Media Pros

Flip to back Flip to front

Listen Playing... Paused You're listening to a sample of the Audible audio edition.
Learn more

See all 5 images

Follow the Author

Jim Collins

Good to Great and the Social Sectors: Why Business Thinking is Not the Answer Paperback – November 22, 2005

by Jim Collins (Author)

4.4 1,302 ratings

Book 3 of 6: Good to Great

See all formats and editions

Price

New from

Used from

Kindle

"Please retry"

$9.99

—

Paperback

"Please retry"

$10.79

$6.19

$1.28

Audio CD, Audiobook

"Please retry"

$16.32

$13.85

$9.90

Kindle
$9.99 Read with Our Free App
Paperback
$10.79

220 Used from $1.28 39 New from $6.19 1 Collectible from $13.75
Audio CD
$16.32

6 Used from $9.90 6 New from $13.85

Great on Kindle

Great Experience. Great Value.

Enjoy a great reading experience when you buy the Kindle edition of this book. Learn more about Great on Kindle, available in select categories.

View Kindle Edition

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.

Book 3 of 6

Good to Great
Print length

35 pages
Language

English
Publisher

Harper Business
Publication date

November 22, 2005
Dimensions

9.38 x 6.06 x 0.13 inches
ISBN-10

0977326403
ISBN-13

978-0977326402
See all details

Frequently bought together

Good to Great and the Social Sectors: Why Business Thinking is Not the Answer

$10.79

In Stock.

Ships from and sold by Amazon.com.

+

Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap and Others Don't

$17.69

In Stock.

Ships from and sold by Amazon.com.

+

Turning the Flywheel: A Monograph to Accompany Good to Great (Good to Great, 6)

$9.89

In Stock.

Ships from and sold by Amazon.com.

Total price:

To see our price, add these items to your cart.

Try again!

Details

Added to Cart

Choose items to buy together.

Jim Collins
1,580
Hardcover
$15.69
$9.90 shipping
Jim Collins
1,039
Paperback
$9.89
$9.22 shipping
Jim Collins
8,351
Hardcover
$17.69
$9.94 shipping
Laila Brenner
211
Paperback
$37.00
$10.85 shipping
Jim Collins
2,309
Paperback
$11.99
$9.45 shipping
Jim Collins
1,039
Paperback
$14.57
$9.13 shipping

Editorial Reviews

About the Author

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

Product details

Publisher ‏ : ‎ Harper Business; 1st edition (November 22, 2005)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 35 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0977326403
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0977326402
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 3.52 ounces
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 9.38 x 6.06 x 0.13 inches

Best Sellers Rank: #16,681 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #30 in Systems & Planning
- #252 in Business Management (Books)
- #372 in Leadership & Motivation

Customer Reviews:
4.4 1,302 ratings

Brief content visible, double tap to read full content.

Full content visible, double tap to read brief content.

Videos

Help others learn more about this product by uploading a video!

Upload your video

About the author

Follow authors to get new release updates, plus improved recommendations.

Jim Collins

Brief content visible, double tap to read full content.

Full content visible, double tap to read brief content.

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 a series of books that have sold in total more than 10 million copies worldwide. They include Good to Great, the #1 bestseller, which examines why some companies make the leap and others don’t; the enduring classic Built to Last, which discovers why some companies remain visionary for generations; How the Mighty Fall, which delves into how once-great companies can self-destruct; and Great by Choice, which uncovers the leadership behaviors for thriving in chaos and uncertainty. Jim has also published two monographs that extend the ideas in his primary books: Good to Great and the Social Sectors and Turning the Flywheel.

His most recent publication is BE 2.0 (Beyond Entrepreneurship 2.0), an ambitious upgrade of his very first book; it returns Jim to his original focus on small, entrepreneurial companies and honors his coauthor and mentor Bill Lazier.

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, where he conducts research and engages with CEOs and senior-leadership teams.

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.

Jim holds a bachelor's degree in mathematical sciences and an MBA from Stanford University, and honorary doctoral degrees from the University of Colorado and the Peter F. Drucker Graduate School of Management at Claremont Graduate University. In 2017, Forbes selected Jim as one of the 100 Greatest Living Business Minds.

Customer reviews

4.4 out of 5

1,302 global ratings

5 star		67%
4 star		18%
3 star		9%
2 star		2%
1 star		3%

How customer reviews and ratings work

Reviews with images

See all customer images

Top reviews from the United States

There was a problem filtering reviews right now. Please try again later.

Kindle Customer

A good addition to Good to Great

Reviewed in the United States on April 10, 2023

Verified Purchase

I would not recommend reading this part if you did not read Good to Great. But after reading the book, as an executive director of an NGO, this was valuable to me to see how the ideas of GtG can be relevant to my work with some minor changes.

Helpful

Angela

He outlines the steps these institutions took to separate them from the good and made them truly great

Reviewed in the United States on July 28, 2015

Verified Purchase

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.

12 people found this helpful

Helpful

Jason Palmer

Organizations must be disciplined

Reviewed in the United States on March 19, 2023

Verified Purchase

This is a must-read follow-up to Jim Collins’ classic, “Good to Great.” His thesis is simple: all organizations, whether in the public, private, or social sectors, must be disciplined. To be great is to be disciplined.

Helpful

Aaron M. Marcelli

Good Content But Does Not Stand Alone

Reviewed in the United States on February 29, 2016

Verified Purchase

I am the financial leader for our small nonprofit organization. As I was getting my MBA, I was constantly making the adjustments in my mind to make the business content fit our nonprofit world. I did the same while reading Good To Great a couple years ago. Still, I was glad to see Collins had produced this monograph written specifically relating to the social sectors.

The booklet is only 35 pages long, and, as he says in the intro, was originally intended to be an additional chapter in GTG. It fit that format, clearly drawing on the principles of GTG, while specifically identifying some of the unique factors in the social sector that call for adjustments to the principles (such as “economic engine” becoming “resource engine.”

If you have not read Good To Great, you may not be able to simply pick up this monograph and easily follow along. As noted, it was meant to be an additional chapter to the book. So while there is some overview of the Good to Great principles given, the writing clearly expects you to be familiar with the content of the full book.

And though I appreciate the attention Collins gives to the social sector (something few business experts do), he also indicated he may not be quite as engaged in this field. At one point he states his team was not very motivated to do research into the social sector in the same way they did in their business analytics, and later states further research may reveal differing conclusions, indicating theirs was not very extensive.

However, if you have read Good To Great and work within the social or nonprofit world, I recommend the book. The content will spark thought and the final section on building pockets of greatness is worth the price alone. As the thesis for the monograph states, it’s not about a language/culture of for-profit and nonprofit, but of greatness, and that can be done in any field or sector.

7 people found this helpful

Helpful

Top reviews from other countries

Don Lucey

Short version of Good to Great

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on September 7, 2010

Verified Purchase

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.

3 people found this helpful

Dave Maddison

Great leadership advice, easy access.

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on February 6, 2020

Verified Purchase

Terrific summary of this great leadership book.

Mr. Christopher M. Child

Five Stars

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on October 14, 2014

Verified Purchase

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

Amazon reader

Good read and passed it on to others who have ...

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on November 10, 2015

Verified Purchase

This is ancient history. Good read and passed it on to others who have found it useful

Tracey

not the whole book

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on May 14, 2018

Verified Purchase

is only a new chapter for the main book. was not clear when i bought it.

See all reviews