Last Monday I flew to Silicon Valley where I spent 3 days with my good friend, Robbie Baxter. Robbie is a membership guru – she wrote The Membership Economy, which has been the #1 Amazon bestseller in 6 different categories! Robbie introduced me to a number of super smart colleagues in a great variety of […]
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Thanks to Robbie, I have spent the last 3 days meeting folks at Apple, Google, Pinterest, Yahoo!, Badgeville as well as start-ups that include Kurbo and Mango Health. I was met with support and enthusiasm at every step. My goal is to bridge Silicon Valley with the association leadership community in Washington DC and this
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In the fall of 1990 I first met Furman Riley during a menÂ’s retreat. I knew right away he was a wild, creative man: an artist. I never dreamed he would become my best friend. Furman was 58 and I was 30. The last 25 years have taken us on a journey that ended up
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Jeff Cobb has distinguished himself as the premier thought-leader on lifelong learning with a specialty helping organizations create and market learning programs that deliver unparalleled value to their customers while at the same time generating valuable revenue. I am a faculty member at his upcoming conference: The Leading Learning Symposium – October 27-28, 2015 –
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Last week I shared about my most recent father/son trip with Gabe. Here’s the map of where we went. We started in Seattle, headed over to the Cascades before doubling back to the northwest most corner, then driving through seashores, forests and mountains all the way to San Francisco. One of the great things about
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Lowering costs will provide you with greater profits on existing revenues. Three ways to do this are (1) replicate processes, (2) increase scale, and (3) increase trust.
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Founded in 1991, Living Cities harnesses the collective power of 22 of the world’s largest foundations and financial institutions to build a new type of urban practice that gets dramatically better results for low-income people, faster. Check out their free e-course, The Why and How of Working with Communities through Collective Impact
Child Obesity 180 is experts and leaders from diverse disciplines coming together, generating urgency, and finding solutions to the childhood obesity epidemic. They were one of the efforts demonstrating powerful success that was studied to develop the Collective Impact method. Check out their great 1½ minute video.
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The concept of collective impact was first articulated in the 2011 Stanford Social Innovation Review article, Collective Impact, written by John Kania. Kania’s publications are a treasure trove of articles on systems leadership and collective impact. See the list on his company website. You will have to scroll down on this page.
My son, Gabe, and I hit the trail over the last two weeks for the Pacific NorthWest. It was our annual sojourn. I was conscious that next year will likely be his last summer at home before he is off to college. In that sense it was the trip of a lifetime. Of course, in
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