Principled Innovation

JANUARY 16, 2013

The Building Better Boards workshop is intended for association board leaders and members, CEOs, C-Suite/senior executives and staff involved in managing board work. In addition to his work as a strategic advisor to association boards, Jeff currently serves as chair of the RedRover Board of Directors.

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Principled Innovation

SEPTEMBER 4, 2012

As a general rule, associations are risk averse organizations, instinctively conservative in every way, especially with their financial resources. How is your association’s budget used as a mechanism of control by your board, CEO, senior staff or other leaders? The Problem. The Opportunity.

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Principled Innovation

MARCH 31, 2013

We’re looking forward to Jeff challenging CESSE 2013 participants to think beyond orthodoxy,” said Tony Keane , president and CEO of the International Facility Management Association (IFMA) in Houston, Texas, and CESSE vice president. Mr. Keane is the overall volunteer organizer for CESSE 2013.

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Principled Innovation

FEBRUARY 12, 2013

This digital openness sheds new light on the orthodox beliefs and insular thinking at play inside all legacy organizations, including associations. Boards, CEOs and other leaders must now reimagine the practice of strategy if they are going to build truly remarkable organizations for the future.

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Principled Innovation

APRIL 2, 2013

It is an invention designed to create artificial predictability and a sense of security for risk-averse organizations. To make this happen, boards, CEOs, C-suite executives, and other contributors need to think beyond orthodoxy and embrace a 21st-century sensibility in their pursuit of business model innovation.

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Principled Innovation

AUGUST 7, 2012

” In the e-book, Jeff challenges boards, CEOs, C-Suite executives and other key contributors to break free of the association community’s orthodox beliefs and make six radical shifts toward the future to help their organizations thrive in the face of relentless societal transformation: De-emphasize membership.

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Principled Innovation

AUGUST 28, 2012

Despite its inherent contradictions and obvious weaknesses, the work of strategic planning continues unabated in associations, perhaps because boards and CEOs have been told at every opportunity their organizations must have a strategic plan.

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Principled Innovation

MARCH 25, 2013

My article “ Trapped in the Past ,” which appears in this month’s issue of Associations Now , challenges association boards to look beyond the richness of their own association membership experiences to recognize the unintended negative consequences of their organizations’ membership-centric business models.

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Principled Innovation

AUGUST 27, 2012

Each shift deals with an important area of association management in which doing what has always been done too often trumps the hard work of building our organizations to thrive, even right now when the latter is both an urgent priority and a non-trivial concern.

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Principled Innovation

JANUARY 14, 2013

Association boards, CEOs and senior executives will need to answer a wide variety of questions as they embark on the work of developing new business models to enable their organizations to thrive over the next decade and beyond. The designers make the important decisions, and then seek feedback from external stakeholders.

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