Association Adviser
JULY 2, 2015
Are our jobs so awful that we prefer to "live" for only two of the seven days of a week? The daily grind of paper pushing and dealing with tough bosses is hard, but is that worth wasting 70 percent. For more about this topic, click on the headline.
Associations Now
JULY 2, 2015
For the third time in the last eight months, an attempted space shuttle launch ended in disaster. Though discouraging, the Commercial Spaceflight Federation maintains a positive outlook on its industry’s future. Who’s up for a trip to space? If you’ve paid any attention to the news over the last week, you’d probably take a pass for now—and maybe forever.
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Velvet Chainsaw
JULY 2, 2015
Yahoo, our conference attendance is up 30% from last year. Whoa, don’t be fooled by that conference data! Too many organizations pat their leaders on the back for increased attendance, selling out the show floor or selling all of their sponsorship packages. We need to use discernment to look deeper into what that conference data is really telling us.
Associations Now
JULY 2, 2015
The Justice Department’s just-announced investigation into the airline industry’s possible collusion on ticket pricing has the industry’s primary trade group speaking out. But other groups say the Justice Department may have a point. Are the airlines unfairly colluding to keep their ticket prices high? That’s a question the Justice Department is currently grappling with.
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SCD Group
JULY 2, 2015
Leading from the Outside-In By Maddie Grant via SocialFish.org Perhaps you and your organization grapple with some of the questions that preoccupied the executives I interviewed for my book as they contemplated how to take their organizations to a next phase. Should we create radically different membership and business models? Should we go “global”?
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Associations Now
JULY 2, 2015
Last month’s Supreme Court ruling on same-sex marriage put county clerk associations in a difficult spot, in some cases forcing association leaders to begin accepting marriage licenses in their own counties even if it goes against their personal convictions. The issues around same-sex marriage are at once intensely personal and politically controversial.
Associations Now
JULY 2, 2015
Outside interests can have disastrous effects on how people perceive your leadership. That’s a lesson that Donald Trump is learning the hard way this week. Also: A wholehearted Whole Foods apology. No other way to frame this: Donald Trump’s presidential run has been bad for Donald Trump’s business career. Trump is polling well in the 2016 presidential race, but the candidate’s comments on immigration, which disparaged Mexicans and Latin-Americans, have proved downright to
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