I developed a draft strategy process for one of the associations that I manage the other day. It didn't take me very long, and it's fairly loosely defined. We have five Board meetings next year, and I suggested a ...
Thank you, Maddie Grant, for posting a thoughtful response to my "Clarity is Hard Work" post. Everyone please go read it if you haven't already. As expected, her focus is on how to "just get crackin.&q ...
Last Friday I had the extreme pleasure to present a session with Lindy Dreyer and Maddie Grant of SocialFish at ASAE’s first ever Social Media Workshop. The title of our session is "What Social Media Means for the W ...
This month's case study in Associations Now is about a Board member who feels his Special Interest Group isn't getting enough attention/resources from the association, so he threatens to start his own association ...
Fellow Gen Xer David Gammel had a brief chat the other day on Twitter reminiscing about making "mix tapes." For you younger folks, this was a process where we would go through our record or CD collection, pick ...
Fellow Gen Xer David Gammel had a brief chat the other day on Twitter reminiscing about making "mix tapes." For you younger folks, this was a process where we would go through our record or CD collection, pick ...
Thanks to Eric Brown, I discovered this blog post from Umair Haque that talks about the difference between thick value and thin value. With the economy the way it is and stories of failed business executives getting big ...
Thanks to Ann Oliveri for pointing me to an article that McKinsey put out on "Strategy in a Structural Break." The author is from UCLA and provided a fresh perspective to some of the other stuff I see on strate ...
Last year I wrote a post titled "Consultants Suck." In it, I made reference to a strategy weekend I did for an association client. It wasn't a full-blown strategic plan (those of you who know me understand ...
Eric Brown pointed me to a nice piece by Ed Burrows in Harvard Management Update on the Four Fatal Flaws of Strategic Planning. No, I'm not going to open up the dead or alive debate again. That debate doesn't see ...
