It’s almost mid-October 2020, and the global pandemic is still not under control. Many organizations are trying to figure out how to return to serving members the way they always have. It is unlikely we will be able to do that. We must forge a new future. Finding a new way forward will require pausing […]
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Up at the park, I recently saw a group of young women sitting on the grass talking, all of them at least 10′ from each other in a large circle. Saturday I was heading out of my neighborhood to do some chores and I came across a concert happening at a local intersection. There were
100 CEOs – I am talking to 100+ CEOs to learn about how the pandemic, the economy, and fight for racial justice shape their organizations. A significant shift in their responses began in September. During early talks – March thru August – CEOs talked about getting back to normal. Now they are talking about the
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Although I am not a Buddhist, I seek wisdom wherever I can find it and Buddhism has many frameworks that I find really helpful. One of them is the “Four Brahmaviharas.” Pronounced bra-ma vih-har-ahs. These are four states of mind that can help us with our lives: lovingkindness, compassion, appreciative joy, and equanimity. I came
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The times are changing, and they are not going to stop. Could you have dreamed that this is where we would be just seven months ago? Maybe yes, if your organization engaged in regular Strategic Foresight activities. Research shows that if you ask people what the future will be like, they take the current circumstances
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Last week I shared how my wife, musician Laura Baron, helped Graham Nash play his hit, Our House, on the guitar. Well, now it’s my turn. Though my story is a bit embarrassing. 30 years ago I participated in the Men’s Multicultural Gathering. 50 black men, 50 white men, and a handful of other ethnicities
Disruption is causing things to change often, and organizational leadership is constantly juggling. Associations must be able to react quickly while sustaining current value generation and revenue-producing activities. All while maintaining the ability to transform your organization to leverage the new ideas and trends emerging from the disruption. The most successful organizations have a process
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In 1969 Graham Nash and Joni Mitchell were out and about after breakfast, and as Nash tells the story, “We’re going to get into Joan’s car, and we pass an antique store. And we’re looking in the window, and she saw a very beautiful vase that she wanted to buy … I persuaded her to
Last week Sita and I headed into the High Peaks Wilderness in the Adirondacks for four nights. We camped in the backcountry on the side of a mountain and about 100 feet from the North Fork of the Boquet River, which provided a continuous rushing and gurgling as the mountain runoff made its way over
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