The Future Is Now
Did anyone out there remember buying or reading Exploring the Future: Seven Strategic Conversations that Could Transform Your association? It was a book put out by ASAE and the ASAE Foundation and written by Robert Olson ...
Category: Strategy
The Corporate versus Nonprofit Debate
Disclosure: I have never really worked in the corporate world. My current position--where I consult to and manage nonprofit organizations--is actually the first time in my life I've worked for a for-profit corporatio ...
Cultivating Strategy
Last Monday I suggested that strategic planning is skewed (in an unhealthy way) towards relevance. On Wednesday, I made the case that social media has some lessons for us in this area--the way social media uses continuou ...
The Missing Link in Strategic Planning
Monday's post talked about the relationship between strategic planning and relevance. In short, the typical process we use for strategic planning (scan-plan-implement-evaluate) actually skews us towards remaining mer ...
Strategic Planning Is Worse than Dead: It's Relevant
This was one of the epiphanies I came to in preparing for the session Maddie Grant and I did in California last week. For years I had been trying to make the argument that strategic planning was dead. The process, while ...
Strategic Planning Is Worse than Dead: It’s Relevant
This was one of the epiphanies I came to in preparing for the session Maddie Grant and I did in California last week. For years I had been trying to make the argument that strategic planning was dead. The process, while ...
Best Practices are Flawed Because We Are Human
I love the association community, but I don't like our obsession with "best practices." Having said that, I have to admit that I get some benefit from the obsession. Volunteer Boards I think get a l ...
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 ...
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 ...
Documents Are Not Strategy
Here's a quick lesson that I think needs some reinforcement: your strategy documents are not your strategy. I know that we all know this already, but looking at the behavior of so many organizations, I'm not so s ...