Seth Kahan on Big Change

Associations that focus primarily on creating transactional member value are actually practicing the old mindset, trying to save their organizations and stave off the transformation that is sweeping the world: knowledge and its effective execution. In this video, I layout the three kinds of associations and why they are so different from each other, including […]

Sometimes you have to violate your own norms to get people’s attention. Here’s a story of a time I did this at the World Bank.

John Sydnor is an expert in venture acceleration with a broad and deep background in technology, financial services, and venture economic development. In this short video he covers the three factors that lower risk in innovation, the profile of a Chief Start-Up Officer inside an organization including their role and behaviors.

There are three important ways that associations are different from private sector organizations. These need to be taken into consideration when going through the strategic planning process.

Communities are a unique resource in organizations when you are leading change. Learn why.

Here is what good innovation feels like to the customer.

I love Robbie Baxter, Silicon Valley guru and author of the Amazon bestseller, The Membership Economy. In this 3 1/2 minute summary, a number of the book’s most important points are strung together in a coherent, easy-to-follow, potent and rapid sequence – it added to my learning and I have read the book twice!

Veronica Meadows is Director, Member Engagement, at the Council of Landscape Architectural Regulatory Boards (CLARB). They have a reputation for stellar leadership performance and innovative approaches to tough issues. Veronica shares about their work on member engagement at CLARB.

The 4 types of business disruption are laid out as are strategies for using any one of them to your advantage.

Speed of execution is the single most important differentiator for leaders who consistently succeed in the market place when it comes to change and innovation. There are three qualities that add up to speed of execution: opportunism, speedy internal mobilization and responsiveness.