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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Last week I covered ‘collective impact’ and ‘common agenda’, an excellent way to achieve your association’s goals by joining forces with other organizations and activists. A collective impact project needs a backbone organization. The backbone organization takes accountability for coordinating and leading the effort. Accepting the role of backbone organization is a fantastic way for
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The country and world are facing many challenges right now. Now is the time for organizations to focus on making a collective impact. Achieve collective impact by identifying partners who share objectives and pulling together to work jointly towards those objectives. One example of an organization doing an outstanding job of making a collective impact
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I will never forget that hike! I loved being a boy scout when I was young. I didn’t know it when this picture was taken but the next three days were going to wear me out! Off I went to carry that pack along the trail with about 30 other scouts, 4 troop masters, and
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 I am offering a significant discount to all Zoom strategy sessions between now and Sept 15. Here are the details: Since the middle of March, I’ve been working closely with association executives to understand the five major disruptions facing us today. The pandemic, interrupted economy, job loss, the need to address systemic racial inequality,
I was in my early 20s, out late one October evening in rural Indiana with my dog, Chokma, an 80# shepherd mix, and a close friend, Dale. Dale was working as a journalist on a Hoosier newspaper and decided to run a story on a local legend, the Headless Switchman, around Halloween. At the time
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I continue to an initiative to talk 100 CEOs in 100 Days. One thing is clear; the short term has become more relevant to business planning. There is too much uncertainty in the air for a long-term plan. We must find ways to best position ourselves for success. I was a change consultant for Royal
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A common reaction when I tell people that we adopted Ruchi when she was eight from India, “Oh, she’s so fortunate.” The truth is we are all so fortunate. Those are not just words. My life has been immeasurably transformed in beautiful ways by my daughter’s presence from the first moment she was with us.
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