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Title: Getting Beyond Better
Subtitle: How Social Entrepreneurship Works
Author: Roger L. Martin, Sally R. Osberg
Narrator: Christina Moore
Format: Unabridged
Length: 6 hrs and 14 mins
Language: English
Release date: 07-31-17
Publisher: Recorded Books
Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 4 votes
Genres: Business, Leadership

Publisher's Summary:
In this compelling book, strategy guru Roger L. Martin and Skoll Foundation President and CEO Sally R. Osberg describe how social entrepreneurs target systems that exist in a stable but unjust equilibrium and transform them into entirely new, superior, and sustainable equilibria. All of these leaders - call them disrupters, visionaries, or changemakers - develop, build, and scale their solutions in ways that bring about the truly revolutionary change that makes the world a fairer and better place.
The book begins with a probing and useful theory of social entrepreneurship, moving through history to illuminate what it is, how it works, and the nature of its role in modern society. The authors then set out a framework for understanding how successful social entrepreneurs actually go about producing transformative change. There are four key stages: understanding the world; envisioning a new future; building a model for change; and scaling the solution. With both depth and nuance, Martin and Osberg offer rich examples and personal stories and share lessons and tools invaluable to anyone who aspires to drive positive change, whatever the context.
Getting Beyond Better sets forth a bold new framework, demonstrating how and why meaningful change actually happens in the world, and provides concrete lessons and a practical model for businesses, policymakers, civil society organizations, and individuals who seek to transform our world for good.

Members Reviews:
must read if this is your space
the authors have continued to apply and develop a framework for this field which is still a work in progress in almost every way. it certainly has given me a lot to think about in the work we do at soles4souls.
there are times it was a little abstract and i lost the thread but the examples were very helpful. would love to have a book group w other social entrepreneurs to work through how i can apply this and learn from other perspectives.
definitely worth the price as I'm sure i'll reread this one multiple times!

A Very Good Addition to the Literature on Social Entrepreneurship
I used this book as a required reading for a seminar I teach on Social Entrepreneurship at The University of Alabama. I know it helped my students recognize and relate to the characteristics we find in successful social entrepreneurs. It explains the difficult concept of creative destruction clearly. Sometimes the actual examples used to support a point were excellent, but some did not seem to connect. I plan on continuing to use the book as a major component of the seminar. One thing that worked well for me was assigning responsibility for discussion of a chapter to one of the students.

Important book and a good read
Highly recommend! Martin and Osberg have written a book that shines new light on the concept of social entrepreneurship â and, more broadly, achieving widespread social change. The book is not a âhow toâ handbook for social entrepreneurs (although surely will be useful to them), but rather offers an interpretive guide that helps us make sense of one of the most important phenomena in the world today: social entrepreneurship.
Take the idea of âshifting an equilibriumâ, which Martin and Osberg highlight as at the heart of the work of social entrepreneurs.