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High commitment drives performance

Posted August 17, 2009 5:51 PM by Ted Jackson

I read an interesting article in the Harvard Business School, Working Knowledge website. It is essentially a book review of esteemed professor Michael Beer. His new book is called High Commitment High Performance: How to Build a Resilient Organization for Sustained Advantage. The book explores long-term successes like Southwest Airlines, Johnson & Johnson, Hewlett Packard, McKinsey, Goldman Sachs, Toyota, etc. It got me wondering about nonprofits leveraging these same skills.

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