Good To Great And The Social Sectors: A Monograph to Accompany Good to Great

Circle 1: Passion - Understanding what your organization stands for (its core values) and why it exists (its mission or core purpose). Circle 2: Best at - Understanding what your organization can uniquely contribute to the people it touches, better than any other organization on the planet. Circle 3: Resource Engine - Understanding what best drives

to deliver superior performance relative to our mission?”

True leadership only exists if people follow when they have the freedom not to.

When we examined the Hedgehog Concepts of the good-to-great companies, we found they reflected deep understanding of three intersecting circles: 1) what you are deeply passionate about, 2) what you can be the best in the world at, and 3) what best drives your

The third circle of the Hedgehog Concept shifts from being an economic engine to a resource engine. The critical question is not “How much money do we make?” but “How can we develop a sustainable resource engine

Get out of their way, and let them build a clock!

STAGE 1: DISCIPLINED PEOPLE Level 5 Leadership. Level 5 leaders are ambitious first and foremost for the cause, the organization, the work—not themselves—and they have the fierce resolve to do whatever it takes to make good on that ambition. A Level 5 leader displays a paradoxical blend of personal humility and professional will. First Who … Then W

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The critical step in the Hedgehog Concept is to determine how best to connect all three circles, so that they reinforce each other. You must be able to answer the question, “How does focusing on what we can do best tie directly to our resource engine, and how does our resource engine directly reinforce what we can do best?” And you must be right.

the social sectors do not have rational capital markets that channel resources to those who deliver the best results.