Good to Great and the Social Sectors - by Jim Collins - Audio Book CD
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Why Company Thinkig Is Not The Answer.
About Great to Great and the Social Sectors
This monograph sprang within the realization that the Good to Great concepts have utilize far beyond company - in government, non-profits, universities, and merely about everywhere else. The monograph rejects the idea that the social sectors could work more like company and shows how the Good to Great concepts is effectively adapted to worlds in which success is not calculated in financial terms.
About Jim Collins
Jim Collins is a student and instructor of enduring awesome businesses -- how they grow, how they achieve superior performance, and how wise firms may become perfect firms. Having invested over a decade of analysis into the topic, Jim has authored or co-authored 4 books, including the classic BUILT TO LAST, a fixture found on the Company Week ideal seller list for over six years, and has been translated into 25 languages. His function has been showcased in Fortune, The Wall Street Journal, Company Week, Harvard Company Review, and Fast Company.
Jim’s latest book, GOOD TO GREAT: Why Some Companies Make the Leap … And Others Don’t attained long-running positions found on the New York Times, Wall Street Journal and Company Week right seller lists, has sold 2.5 million hardcover duplicates since publication and has been translated into 32 languages.
Driven by a relentless curiosity, Jim started his analysis and training profession found on the faculty at Stanford Graduate School of Company, where he received the Distinguished Teaching Award in 1992. In 1995, he founded a administration laboratory in Boulder, Colorado, where he today conducts analysis and teaches professionals within the business and social sectors.
Jim has served as a instructor to senior professionals and CEOs at over a 100 businesses. He has furthermore worked with social sector companies, such as: Johns Hopkins Medical School, the Girl Scouts of the USA, the Leadership Network of Churches, the American Association of K-12 School Superintendents, and the United States Marine Corps. In 2005 he published a monograph: Great to Great and the Social Sectors.
Jim invests a substantial part of his power in large-scale analysis projects -- frequently five or even more years in length -- to develop fundamental insights and then translate those results into books, articles and lectures. He utilizes his administration laboratory to function straight with professionals and to develop useful tools for applying the concepts that flow from his analysis.
Additionally, Jim is an avid rock climber and has produced free ascents of the West Face of El Capitan and the East Face of Washington Column in Yosemite Valley. |
