Principled Innovation

NOVEMBER 1, 2012

Jeff De Cagna FRSA FASAE, chief strategist and founder of Principled Innovation LLC, has been elected chair of the RedRover Board of Directors. Jeff will begin his two-year term in January 2013. RedRover is a national organization that focuses on bringing animals out of crisis and strengthening the bond between people and animals.

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Associations Now

DECEMBER 15, 2014

Last month, McKinsey & Company released a report on its 2013 survey of CEOs and other execs at social-sector nonprofits to gauge their confidence in the leadership structure they have and what they think they’d need to improve. I don’t think you can strictly equate a social-sector leadership crisis with an association one.

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Principled Innovation

APRIL 28, 2013

Jeff De Cagna FRSA FASAE , chief strategist and founder of Principled Innovation LLC, is serving as curator and provocateur for the inaugural Association Chief Executives (ACE) Symposium , to be held on Friday, July 12 at The Gannett Building in McLean, Virginia.

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Principled Innovation

APRIL 2, 2013

This post originally appeared on the Associations Now Leadership Blog on March 28, 2013. It is an invention designed to create artificial predictability and a sense of security for risk-averse organizations. You can read Part I here. The problem for associations is that the member market does not really exist.

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Associations Now

APRIL 15, 2013

Let everyone else know that that’s how things are done at your organization. “Take a long-term view, and the interests of customers and shareholders align” businessinsider.com/jeff-bezos-thi… #leadership #assnchat. — Amith Nagarajan (@AmithNagarajan) April 15, 2013. Reimagining Conferences.

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.orgSource

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

When you are considering an update, it’s also a good time to take the temperature of trust in your organization. If you are interested in exploring organizational trust on a deeper level, join us on March 2 for the.orgCommunity Leadership ColLAB at the OLC Education and Conference Center in Rosemont, IL. orgCommunity’s VIP members.

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Mizz Information

JUNE 12, 2019

actually, I did go down that rabbit hole back in 2013, come to think about it. Oh, and helps organizations adapt and change. Communities are agents of change that can deliver on some of the most intractable challenges organizations face while at the same time empowering individuals. Communities transform organizations.

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Smooth The Path

JUNE 19, 2017

I called 2013 my year of brave public speaking. If someone asked me to speak to their organization, I said yes before I had a chance to think about it. I offered my services to organizations all around town. Related: To start or sustain an association-wide focus on innovation the association’s CEO must be on board.

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Association Navigator

AUGUST 19, 2013

We’re being told that the reason the Graham family is selling The Washington Post is because it’s been losing money for years and they need someone that can afford to continue losing money while he innovates the way the model operates. Uncategorized Association competition Association Leadership Innovation'

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Principled Innovation

JANUARY 16, 2013

Join Jeff De Cagna of Principled Innovation on Friday, March 8, 2013 in Denver for a full-day workshop on Building Better Boards , presented by the Colorado Society of Association Executives. Registration for the workshop is now open.

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Beth Kanter

AUGUST 5, 2014

Are leadership skills different for emerging “Millennial” leaders than for people from different generations? This is a question being asked in many nonprofits as they look at how to prepare younger leaders in their organizations to lead and develop their talent. Leadership' Flickr Photo by Flower Factor.

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Aaron Wolowiec

JULY 16, 2013

Jeff De Cagna, founder of Principled Innovation LLC. To start us off, I spoke with Jeff De Cagna , founder of Principled Innovation LLC. A: Quite honestly, I was very concerned about the advice being given to association leaders about how to build organizations that will thrive in the years ahead. Q: Who should read this book?

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Association Success

NOVEMBER 23, 2017

How I adopted the innovative start-up strategy for the benefit of my association. I first read The Lean Startup by Eric Ries in 2013. In these conversations, some people indicated they would prefer to use a timesheet, and this anecdotal evidence fell into the hands of leadership. The results didn’t vindicate the project.

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Mizz Information

JUNE 12, 2019

actually, I did go down that rabbit hole back in 2013, come to think about it. Oh, and helps organizations adapt and change. Communities are agents of change that can deliver on some of the most intractable challenges organizations face while at the same time empowering individuals. Communities transform organizations.

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Associations Now

SEPTEMBER 23, 2013

The world’s best leadership-focused companies both develop and reward the core skills that drive innovation, according to the Hay Group’s annual study. Though Procter and Gamble took the top spot in the 2013 study, a case could be made that the real winner was runner-up Microsoft. This year, Procter & Gamble heads its list.

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Associations Now

NOVEMBER 18, 2013

RT @ChatterBachs : 10 Strategies for Increasing Your #Creativity @DanielBurrus [link] #assnchat #innovation #nonprofit. — John Ricco (@johnricco) November 18, 2013. A reinvigorated imagination can spur unbridled creation of new ideas—channeling refreshed creativity back to innovation within your organization.

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Idea Architects

JUNE 23, 2012

custom-designing keynotes, workshops, and leadership conferences that promote innovation, learning, and community. Beginning in 2013, I hope to change that by repurposing a portion of my work to provide even more content-rich learning experiences coupled with compelling conversation over a sustained period of time.

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Association Success

JUNE 25, 2018

At my association, NCARB, we have been working according to Lean principles since Eric Ries sparked a lightbulb moment for me in 2013. A key aspect of Lean innovation is engaging in empathy, and as such we embarked upon a series of empathy sessions with both team captains and volunteers to try and understand the volunteer management dynamic.

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Associations Now

JANUARY 24, 2014

With evidence that their networks were compromised by the National Security Agency in 2013, tech companies focused heavily on lobbying last year, though it was far from their only issue of interest. With a big push from leaker Edward Snowden, some of the biggest technology companies in the world got serious about lobbying in 2013.

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Velvet Chainsaw

JULY 1, 2013

You turn you head and before you know it, some of these organizations have lost their way and slowly disappear. It’s like clinging to a version of reality that the organization wants to be true although it has already slipped past them. Agile organizations need to adapt and remake themselves quickly. They lose their appeal.

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Association Adviser

AUGUST 27, 2013

Tremendous insight, vision and leadership capabilities despite being introverts, according to Susan Cain , best-selling author of Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can’t Stop Talking. Get a sense of “how open they are to change and innovation,” and work within those parameters. Innovation.

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Idea Architects

MAY 8, 2012

custom-designing keynotes, workshops, and leadership conferences that promote innovation, learning, and community. For the first five years I was a co-founder and partner (with Karyn Nishumura Sneath ) of a leadership development practice called like minded people. Ill officially open 2013 scheduling at the same time.

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Velvet Chainsaw

NOVEMBER 8, 2013

Organizing your sales effort around your own offerings rather than what your customers would value most. Pitch something innovative and all they’ll see is more work and higher risk. Gaining access to the budget maker is easier if you tap the leaders within your organization. Three New Habits to Adopt and Embrace.

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Associations Now

MARCH 20, 2014

“The quality of the people that you get, grow, and keep on your team directly determines the success of your organization,” Spence said last week at ASAE’s 2014 Great Ideas Conference. “If You have to look at talent as a strategic objective.”. You have to look at talent as a strategic objective.”.

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Associations Now

JANUARY 27, 2014

as part of the National Association of Manufacturers’ Council of Manufacturing Associations Winter Leadership Conference. Graham IV, FASAE, CAE; Jeff De Cagna, FASAE, Chief Strategist and Founder of Principled Innovation ; and author Seth Kahan ; CM Services President and Head Coach Rick Church moderated.

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Associations Now

MARCH 17, 2014

We write a lot here—on this particular blog, but also throughout AssociationsNow.com—about the importance of bringing fresh ideas to your organization. Without question, there’s something in your staff, your membership and leadership structure, your revenue model, and your meetings that can use a fresh look.

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Beth Kanter

JANUARY 4, 2016

I also taught networked leadership workshops as part of a larger team working with different social change networks. Innovation Lab Facilitation : For the past few years, I’ve trained in and designed and facilitated innovation labs using the Luma Institute Methods. I walked away 40 pounds, but something else happened.

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Idea Architects

JULY 20, 2012

custom-designing keynotes, workshops, and leadership conferences that promote innovation, learning, and community. Participative decision-making forms like quality circles have become mainstays in many organizations. I often present them at volunteer leadership conferences, as staff or board training. sponsor for members.

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Associations Now

AUGUST 12, 2013

Every leader is put in the position of establishing his or her leadership presence in a new place at least once, whether they climbed the ladder internally or found a new perch. Bezos is arguably the greatest living innovator in the American technology business, but you won’t find the word “innovate” anywhere in his letter.

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Idea Architects

JULY 13, 2012

custom-designing keynotes, workshops, and leadership conferences that promote innovation, learning, and community. Organizations must ensure that everyone who facilitates has the skills to do so. July 29, New Orleans, NYIB Leadership Pre-Conference. 9, New Orleans, NAHB Association Leadership Institute.

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Associations Now

DECEMBER 23, 2013

Supporting diversity, stoking innovation, and building partnerships were all essential parts of the CEO’s toolkit in 2013. This was the first full year I wrote (pretty much) weekly on leadership for AssociationsNow.com. Innovation doesn’t have to be paradigm-shattering event. It’s like sailing a ship!

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Beth Kanter

JANUARY 2, 2015

I gave a lightening talk at the Gates Foundation convening of the Markets for Good community on “ Between the Keyboard and the Chair “ Facilitation and Train the Trainers: I was honored to co-facilitate a leadership track at the first ever Leading Change Summit hosted by NTEN which was an amazing learning experience.

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Beth Kanter

APRIL 4, 2016

TechSoup wrote up this post based on some very early innovators in 2013, but still only a handful of nonprofits had established a presence. The Annenberg Foundation has been sharing snaps from behind the scenes at its leadership conference. I waited to see if other nonprofits would embrace this emerging social media platform.

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Associations Now

NOVEMBER 12, 2013

No matter how innovative your culture is, if you can’t act on your big ideas effectively, they’re of no use. They can help shape those big ideas into manageable, well-organized processes that eventually turn into useful, real-world products. That’s where project managers come in. Well, that’s the potential, anyway.

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Jamie Notter

JANUARY 2, 2014

There is an article in the December 2013 issue of the Atlantic titled, “ They’re Watching You at Work.” ” It’s not so much about privacy or spying, as it is about big data, and how that can be applied, not to sales and marketing, but to the work of leadership and management. Well, some companies are.

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Beth Kanter

DECEMBER 31, 2013

International Training Work: Most of my work is designing and delivering capacity building projects for nonprofits literally all over the world. This past year I had the honor of facilitating an intense training in Tunisia in January for Women Entrepreneurs that included leadership, entrepreneurship, business planning, and communications.

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Reid All About it

FEBRUARY 1, 2013

And if it isn’t yet for your organization, it probably should be.” Michelle Bruno just returned from their Convening Leaders conference and says, “More than any specific program feature or technological innovation, it was PCMA’s attitude toward digital disruption that was so obvious at the event. Fact: it works. Happy Friday!

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