Beyond Relevance Webinar
In September, I wrote a blog post titled "Relevance Is Not Enough." Building off the writing of Jeff De Cagna and Maddie Grant, I made the argument that being relevant to members will not drive growth. It was o ...
Category: Leadership
Paying the Price for Truth
Last week I suggested that if you want a culture of truth in your organization, perhaps that needs to start at the top. Several of the comments chimed in with a "you're darn right it does." The top control ...
Leading Broken Organizations
Bruce Butterfield has created an interesting dialogue over on the ASAE listserve when he compared the association community to the struggling/dying industry of newspapers. Maddie posted about it, as did Peggy. Glen Tecke ...
Governance Month: “I don’t want to be the one who screwed things up”
I have heard this phrase a lot in the context of association governance (which is this month's theme on the Acronym blog, by the way). Jeffrey Cufaude mentioned it in a blog comment recently as one reason why a ...
Governance Month: "I don't want to be the one who screwed things up"
I have heard this phrase a lot in the context of association governance (which is this month's theme on the Acronym blog, by the way). Jeffrey Cufaude mentioned it in a blog comment recently as one reason why a ...
Love Your Clients
I know some people get a little antsy when you start talking about "love" in the workplace. That's their prerogative. I also know that some of the most brilliant people I know embrace the idea with reckless ...
The Trouble with Hierarchy
In one of the (many!) amazing "Big Idea" posts that have been going around, Scott Briscoe on Acronym talks about hierarchy. Scott says we shouldn't hate hierarchy--we should hate the lack of leadership fro ...
Big Idea: What If Only You Could Change Associations?
I read and think a lot about associations. I care about associations. It's my career. I want the best for associations and I like to push associations into being better, more effective, more strategic, more human. So ...
Associations Next
Cleaning my desk, I came across my notes from Jeff De Cagna's ASAE Annual Meeting Session that I think was titled "Associations Next." There was more to his program than my notes, obviously (you can actuall ...
Setting Ourselves Up for Failure
A lot of what we do in the work world (and at home for that matter) is attempt to get people to say "yes" to us. We need agreement or approval from other people before we can do what we want or need to do. That ...