Individual and Collective Agency
Last night I tried to explain to my 17 year-old daughter why our country is in flames. She cried out at the injustice toward George Floyd. I watched as she ...
Fostering Inner Strength
It’s easy enough to build our muscles through deliberate exercise. The same is true for our inner strength, though the means are different. Eugen Sandow is considered by many to ...
Journal Treasures
I keep a variety of notes on a daily basis. Every day I start with listing my most important goals for the day, the big ones. This is in addition ...
Ruchi’s Favorite Cookies
Every so often I go on a baking frenzy. Once several years ago, I was making cookies from a recipe and made a few mistakes in the recipe. It resulted ...
Personal Best
The official definition of personal best is “the best time or score ever achieved by an athlete in a particular event.” Today I am thinking about giving my finest in ...
Coronavirus Playbook
In 2008 the American housing bubble burst, setting off a global financial crisis and recession. At the time, I was ...
Strategy during the Pandemic
Imagine that you’re the captain of a ship – your association – and it is your job to keep the ...
Insights for Leaders
I’ve had many discussions, including interviews, zoom calls, and one-on-one conversations with CEOs and executives this week. I’m eager to ...
Pandemic Week 7 – So much to learn!
If ever there was a time to serve your members, it is now! I am gathering and sharing information and ...
INVITATION to Hackathon on Virtualizing Meetings
Through my work with association executives, I’ve identified a theme. Associations must be preparing to not just get through the ...
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Seth Kahan's Blog Posts
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What can One Person Do?
A food bank is a non-profit that safely stores food to be delivered to local food distribution centers, where it reaches those in need. Feeding ...
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Leading through the Pandemic
A visionary leader is someone who aligns the well-being of society with that of their organization and their customers. When all three are aligned, you ...
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Why do we March?
What is a march? It occurs in military campaigns, musical compositions, protests, and parades. It means to advance inexorably. A march is not something that ...
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3 Lessons for Virtualizing Meetings
I’ve been designing and leading virtual meetings much longer than ZOOM has been around. My largest virtual meeting took place 20 years ago and included ...
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Announcing my first class, Leading During the Pandemic
These are tough times, but this is what associations are made for. This is our chance to step up and serve our members when they ...
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Mental Health
Health and economics. These two important topics have been all over the news. But, they don’t cover a shadow wave that is just as important: ...
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Everything is Different
Unprecedented is too tame a word for our circumstances. All across the world people are sheltering in place. Our collective lives have been disrupted and ...
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Pandemic Shelter-in-Place Week 3
I extend my heartfelt prayers and best wishes for you and your loved ones, for your health and your safety. Disruptions are massive. Our organizations ...
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Succeeding Under Stress
We are all doing our best to care for ourselves and our loved ones during great uncertainty. This crisis is hitting us on three fronts ...
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CovidLeadership.com
Unprecedented times call for unprecedented collaboration. I am committing, for the next 60 days, to help association leaders get through the COVID pandemic by providing ...
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Silver Linings
No one has ever been through what we are experiencing now. It’s normal to feel like you are on an emotional roller coaster or to ...
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INVITE: Responding to the Coronavirus – March 25
As the world works to deal with COVID-19, business leaders have special accountabilities, responsibilities and challenges. Disruption is hitting us on four fronts: personal health, ...
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INVITE: Responding to the Coronavirus – March 24
As the world works to deal with COVID-19, associations have special responsibilities and challenges. Despite the disruption to our personal health, social norms, business, and ...
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Meeting Triage – Factors to Consider when Delaying or Canceling a Meeting
While working at the World Bank, designing and facilitating hundreds of meetings, I developed a framework for what to consider when canceling or rescheduling a ...
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Seth’s Twitter Feed
We’re being disrupted from multiple directions.
As a leader, you have a special responsibility to your members and… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
Through my work helping leaders execute large overarching strategies, I’ve learned what it takes to build a global… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
As a leader during the pandemic, how have you helped to support your staff's mental health? buff.ly/2xrGvuU… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
What do you care most about, and how can you bring it into your life now?
Perhaps the world will shift as a result of this pandemic, as we realize how interconnected we all are and as we ta… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
