From ancient times, people have welcomed the new year with rituals to attract good fortune. Why? Because it’s a natural symbol of new beginnings. Although time (the calendar, days, hours) is an artificial construct by people to help us with our lives, it reflects the very real cycle of seasons here on Earth. A “new […]
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I realized over the holidays that there is a voice in my head that often says to me, “You can get through this.” The voice is especially prominent when I am facing some new challenge. It could be anything from a disagreement with one of my teenagers to a business threshold that I just can’t
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What really makes for a leadership mindset? Here are two views into the elusive chief executive’s mental game.
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Welcome to the week between Christmas and New Year’s, one of my favorite spans of time. Things tend to slow a bit now as many people take vacations and activity subsides. Just seven days ahead is the first day of a new year. This is the end of the annum behind us. So much can
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Watch this video to learn about my new online training course, Getting Association Strategy Right. The Beta test for the course begins in January. Contact me if you would like to participate!
Seth Kahan on Association Strategy Read More »
My son, Gabe, is home from college. Yesterday while sitting in our dining room downing a quart or so of ice cream he said to me, “We have always been a family of life-hacking.” It caught my attention and I asked him what he meant. So began another interesting and philosophical conversation with the man
I have served the last 18 mo or so on the American Geophysical Union ‘s task force on Affiliation and Engagement. This is an important issue for associations serving rapidly changing member constituencies
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Evidence-based everything is all the rage. What does it mean? It means taking into consideration the results of the best research we have to inform decisions and behavior. Evidence-based Practice is applied to healthcare. It was defined by Dr. David Sackett as“the conscientious, explicit and judicious use of current best evidence in making decisions about
Here I explain the kind of innovation that helps you systematically jump the curve to a new level of performance. It includes these topics: identifying and leveraging inflection points, building your organization’s innovation capacity, exploiting disruption, and driving iterative increases in value.
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Friday I held a special event for the CEOs and visionary leaders within my professional community in Washington, DC. It was an extraordinary affair, though it was not the pomp that made it so. We had plenty to snack on, but the real substance was the people who attended. In this picture with me from
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