In my latest book, Visionary Leadership, How Association Leaders Embrace Disruption in the 21st Century, I identify the competencies that successful visionaries use over and over and over again: Association Leadership Market Acumen Personal Power Today, I discuss Market Acumen, which I break down into four specific competencies: Detecting larger patterns Identifying disruptions Systems thinking […]
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I have the great joy to be married to Laura Baron. Among many other things, she is a talented and highly esteemed singer-songwriter. One of my delights is having a front row seat to the many rehearsals that take place in our home, including all of the wonderful musicians who perform with her. Laura not
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My latest book, Visionary Leadership: How Association Leaders Embrace Disruption in the 21st Century, lays out, among other things, three areas of personal competence that association CEOs need to lead through disruption: Association Leadership Market Acumen Personal Power Today, I discuss Personal Power, which these components: storytelling, story listening, radical self-care, and intentional self-transformation.
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My next book, Visionary Leadership: How Association Leaders Embrace Disruption in the 21st Century, becomes available in hard copy June 7th. It’s been a great pleasure not just to write it, but to design it. I love graphic design because (a) it adds a dimension to the content, and (b) it’s an art. That’s one
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My next book, Visionary Leadership: How Association Leaders Embrace Disruption in the 21st Century, is available June 7th. I’d like to offer you a free PDF version of the book. If you’d like to take advantage of this offer email me at seth@visionaryleadership.com Inside you will find: Case studies on Visionary Leaders like Susan Neely
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As I write this Sunday afternoon I am on my way home from an absolutely fabulous board meeting with one of my clients. The board embraced a pivot for the organization that will take them into new and exciting territory, a quantum leap extending and growing their core value in new ways. This is one
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The focus of my work is visionary leadership – leadership that leaves the world better than we find it. An exemplar in that regard is Mark French, who recently passed away. Mark was the founder and driving force of Leading Authorities speakers bureau, CEO Update, and the Association Leadership Awards. These awards acknowledge association leaders
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Sometimes I wake up early in the morning, long before my alarm clock goes off, with a fire in my belly. I have learned that the best way to handle that is to pull out my journal and write down whatever is on my mind. Sometimes that is a to-do list that my subconscious feels
I’ve been thinking a lot about what it takes to step up and how Boards of Directors can make a move from being conservative to bold, taking on the most important activities that an organization is facing, creating guiding policies, and align resources to get action. Richard Rumelt, the author of Good Strategy Bad Strategy,
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If you have been subscribing to Monday Morning Mojo for a year or more, you know I love Holi! I never would have found this amazing celebration and holiday had we not adopted our wonderful daughter, Ruchi, from India 7 1/2 years ago. That’s her dancing with my wife, Laura, in the bottom of the
