Not for Profits don't have to copy business
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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.
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Read both
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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 bhe trying to achieve. And now I have got the promotion...
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Leadership in non-profit organisations a real challenge.
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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
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