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Finance ✦ Penny’s Take

Good To Great And The Social Sectors

James Charles Collins · 2005
80/100
👍 Worth It

Jim Collins does something genuinely useful here — he takes the principles from Good to Great and translates them with care for nonprofit, education, and government leaders who have been told for years that business thinking is the answer. The research is real, the argument is persuasive, and the Hedgehog Concept translates surprisingly well outside the profit world. The only real catch is that at under 40 pages, it reads more like a long essay than a book, and you'll get more out of it if you've already read the original.

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Verdict receipt0–100
Faith & family safety92
Substance / usefulness80
Craft & writing78
Originality75
Evidence & accuracy82
Hype vs delivers78
Age-fit82
👁 Human-eye gut-check80
Penny’s verdict80
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