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The Arbitrariness of Leadership

Eric Lanke

Outliers are, by definition, always difficult. They remind me that there will always be a certain arbitrariness to leadership--that there isn''t a finite set of practices and procedures that can be used to define effective leadership in all situations at all times. Associations Leadership'

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Mindful Associations – Your Questions Answered

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Last week we held our December Thought Leadership webinar Mindful Associations: Fuel 2015 Success with Vision and Gratitude , with Holly Duckworth, CAE, CMP, recognized speaker and CEO of Leadership Solutions International. This marks the end of YM’s 2014 Monthly CAE Thought Leadership Webinars.

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Online Communities Reap Benefits From Volunteer, Executive Leadership

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Strategy, governance, and executive leadership. The Community Roundtable (The CR)—the community for community managers—published the 2014 edition of its “ State of Community Management ” report a few weeks ago, and it focuses on the key elements that mark success in “mature,” or best-in-class, online communities.

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Time to get in the game. There’s a game being played?

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Last week we hosted our monthly Thought Leadership Webinar , featuring a whitepaper published by Association Laboratory entitled Looking Forward 2014: An Environmental Scanning Whitepaper for the Association Industry. In a recent online poll, 83 percent admitted they would be actively looking for a new position in 2014.

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Book Review: Do Lead

Jamie Notter

Do Book Co, 2014. In Chapter 3 of Humanize , Maddie and I take to task the authors, experts, and even “gurus” on the topic of leadership. In human organizations, we understand that leadership is actually the system’s capacity to shape its future. Books and Reading Leadership' Inspire others. Achieve the impossible.

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Lessons From 25 Years at One Association

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Prather’s story suggests the opposite: that with a certain tenacity and open-mindedness, employees can evolve into valued members of a staff, to the point where they’re qualified for top leadership. I think that the association is in a place where it will definitely be best served by continuity,” she says. Be interested in everything.

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Winning Lessons from the World of Sports

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This kind of role definition is critical in any organization—know who is doing what. Your members want to know what will happen in 2014, not what happened in 2004. Governance Membership Operations Standards Starting an Association association management Experience Leadership Organizational Development'

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