Tonight (Sunday) I head out to Positano’s, a classic Italian restaurant near my house, to celebrate the birth of two works of art. The first is my wife’s new EP, Long Road Home, five songs she just produced in the studio with the help of the Arts & Humanities council of Montgomery County. And the […]
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We live in an environment where technology is growing exponentially and has been for a long time. And the exponential aspect of growth is not going to stop. In this video, I share with you an exercise that I often use to kick off a strategy session. The exercise highlights how striking exponential growth is
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Today, I want to share with you six questions that I have found extremely helpful when developing strategy. They’re specific to associations, and they are inspired by Richard Rumelt’s model that he lays out in his excellent book, “Good Strategy/Bad Strategy.” What cannot change? What are the biggest hurdles your association is facing today? What
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The Psychologist in an article entitled, Gratitude – Parent of all virtues, states “…around 18.5 percent of individual differences in people’s happiness could be predicted by the amount of gratitude they feel.”* Wow! That caught my attention! It’s long been known gratitude will increase your state, but now there’s research on this important topic aplenty
In my latest book, Visionary Leadership, How Association Leaders Embrace Disruption in the 21st Century, I identify a group of competencies that I see visionary leaders demonstrating: Association Leadership Market Acumen Personal Power Today, I discuss Association Leadership, which I break down into four specific competencies: Ecosystem leadership Leading for collective impact Collective learning Reframing
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I recently had the exciting opportunity to sit down with my good friend Mary Byers, CAE to discuss my new book Visionary Leadership: How Association Leaders Embrace Disruption in the 21st Century. Our conversation was captured in a podcast which will be available at 3pm CST June 12th. In her Successful Associations Today interview series
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I discovered long ago that I like to make things. I like to paint some of my own t-shirts and caps. I like to build things with my hands. I never stayed with any one discipline long enough to develop expertise in it except for writing, speaking and facilitating, which mostly don’t involve creating things.
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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