Association Subculture

JANUARY 19, 2010

As an executive, it will be one of the trickier and most frustrating things you have to learn to deal with. They smack of "management" rather than "leadership" or seem to reflect a latent desire on the part of executive or board members to see themselves as Machiavellian power brokers or victims. And maybe even impossible.

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Association Subculture

OCTOBER 18, 2011

look at you with disdain" - When you, as the executive, believe that you are endowed with certain powers to accurately and immediately judge what is and is not a good idea, you will kill off any creativity in your staff or board. And I have seen plenty of executives who are dead wrong about their own accuracy and powers of intuition.

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Association Subculture

JANUARY 25, 2013

How about an association executive who is in the middle of a board meeting that just started going south.

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Association Subculture

SEPTEMBER 5, 2012

Then look at the simple technique that was used and do a little DIY brainstorming about how you can duplicate, adapt or model both the concept itself and/or the execution to benefit your own communities. Watch the video and think about how you might answer the question it asks. Wishing you all the best on your journeys.

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Association Subculture

FEBRUARY 10, 2010

During times of economic crisis many questions haunt executives, boards, staff members and volunteers alike. She worked her way up from receptionist to executive director, switched directions to passionately pursue developing her skills as an educational content specialist and is now a consultant. How will we weather this storm?

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Association Subculture

MAY 9, 2012

And if you are a member of the MIX (being a member is free and is very beneficial for association executives and staff who want to stay on the cutting edge of management practices) please rate, vote for and share our submission on Twitter and Facebook. We believe in associations.

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Association Subculture

JANUARY 15, 2014

Seriously though, I know how stuff like this can weigh a motivated executive, staff and volunteers down. Association Professional - "All right, well I want to spend my life traveling to meetings, listening to people squabble and trying to get something done before I go back to my room and sob over the mini-bar."

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Association Subculture

OCTOBER 2, 2012

Sometimes I see good executives become almost paralyzed, overwhelmed with the sense that this association management thing is careering out of control. I'm starting to wonder if we, myself included, might be making the question "how do we move associations forward into the future" a little too complicated.

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Association Subculture

APRIL 6, 2010

During times of economic crisis many questions haunt executives, boards, staff members and volunteers alike. She worked her way up from receptionist to executive director, switched directions to passionately pursue developing her skills as an educational content specialist and is now a consultant. How will we weather this storm?

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Association Subculture

SEPTEMBER 7, 2009

We know all the way up to "10" is execution, innovation lives at "11". Type A association executives, staff and consultants alike are living loud at 10. She got her CAE (Certified Association Executive) just to prove she knows what she’s doing. In all sectors, public or private, innovation is the name of the game.

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Association Subculture

FEBRUARY 13, 2012

But on a more serious note, I truly believe association executives, staff and volunteer leaders need to take the time to simplify their reasons for being. She worked her way up from receptionist to executive director, switched directions to passionately pursue developing her skills as an educational content specialist and is now a consultant.

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Association Subculture

APRIL 2, 2012

She worked her way up from receptionist to executive director, switched directions to passionately pursue developing her skills as an educational content specialist and is now a consultant. She got her CAE (Certified Association Executive) just to prove she knows what she’s doing.

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Association Subculture

NOVEMBER 30, 2010

On any given day I am either the bombard- ED or the bombard- EE in terms of planning, executing, attending, presenting at, marketing, developing, celebrating and/or lamenting this thing we call “conference.” Execution, as we well know, is everything! November 30, 2010 10:24 AM. Shelly Alcorn, CAE. November 30, 2010 1:57 PM.

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Association Subculture

DECEMBER 19, 2011

Best of all, those words sparked the " Association Executives: Provocative Proposals for Change " interview project, and were the underpinnings for the successful bid to be included in the " Edupunks Guide to a DIY Credential." She got her CAE (Certified Association Executive) just to prove she knows what she’s doing.

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Association Subculture

MAY 18, 2012

I know that executive committee meeting seems like life and death - but it isnt. She worked her way up from receptionist to executive director, switched directions to passionately pursue developing her skills as an educational content specialist and is now a consultant. "Nobody ever died from sleeping in an unmade bed."

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Association Subculture

DECEMBER 5, 2011

She worked her way up from receptionist to executive director, switched directions to passionately pursue developing her skills as an educational content specialist and is now a consultant. She got her CAE (Certified Association Executive) just to prove she knows what she’s doing.

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Association Subculture

DECEMBER 14, 2009

Whatever the reasons for the overall positive news on the ethics front, the researchers have boiled the data down to two major conclusions and a series of recommendations for executives, managers, boards, policy makers and ethics professionals. She got her CAE (Certified Association Executive) just to prove she knows what she’s doing.

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Association Subculture

APRIL 9, 2012

She worked her way up from receptionist to executive director, switched directions to passionately pursue developing her skills as an educational content specialist and is now a consultant. She got her CAE (Certified Association Executive) just to prove she knows what she’s doing.

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Association Subculture

AUGUST 3, 2012

I'm taking to the blog to invite you all to my session on Pop Culture at the American Society of Association Executives (ASAE) upcoming conference in Dallas. I am pretty sure that I have used this clip before but really, it seems appropriate for today. It's on Tuesday, August 14 at 10:45 in room C156.

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Association Subculture

AUGUST 26, 2011

Although I do tackle LBGTQ issues from time to time - see our need for more executive transvestites :D). I just interviewed 200 association executives in my most recent research project. She got her CAE (Certified Association Executive) just to prove she knows what she’s doing. I dont always get this one right.

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Association Subculture

APRIL 5, 2012

She worked her way up from receptionist to executive director, switched directions to passionately pursue developing her skills as an educational content specialist and is now a consultant. She got her CAE (Certified Association Executive) just to prove she knows what she’s doing.

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Association Subculture

FEBRUARY 15, 2012

She worked her way up from receptionist to executive director, switched directions to passionately pursue developing her skills as an educational content specialist and is now a consultant. She got her CAE (Certified Association Executive) just to prove she knows what she’s doing.

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Association Subculture

MARCH 14, 2012

Its the same type of bias that underpins those "helpful hints" to women executives to "be less emotional" in the workplace, or that tries to reduce intelligent, assertive women to a "witchy-but-not-with-a-w" stereotype. (Im She got her CAE (Certified Association Executive) just to prove she knows what she’s doing.

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Association Subculture

JULY 3, 2012

She worked her way up from receptionist to executive director, switched directions to passionately pursue developing her skills as an educational content specialist and is now a consultant. She got her CAE (Certified Association Executive) just to prove she knows what she’s doing.

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Association Subculture

SEPTEMBER 24, 2009

Only this was written by Mary Ann Tuft and published in "Future Perspectives" from the Foundation of the American Society of Association Executives in 1985. Why do we accept the M-F 8:00 to 5:00 workweek in addition to all of the other hours that are required to travel to, staff and execute meetings and events?

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Association Subculture

MARCH 19, 2012

So often we hear association executives and staff lamenting memberships that seem to be "turning on them." She worked her way up from receptionist to executive director, switched directions to passionately pursue developing her skills as an educational content specialist and is now a consultant. Our members are trying to bite us.

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Association Subculture

DECEMBER 21, 2010

Part of that gig means "blending in" with a new board and not embarrassing an executive. I remember a particular CalSAE meeting where, upon seeing your rocking suit/tie/chucks attire, a certain association executive expressed her negative opinion of your couture. They happen to be an important part of who I am. Sandra Giarde, CAE.

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Association Subculture

APRIL 11, 2012

She worked her way up from receptionist to executive director, switched directions to passionately pursue developing her skills as an educational content specialist and is now a consultant. She got her CAE (Certified Association Executive) just to prove she knows what she’s doing.

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Association Subculture

DECEMBER 15, 2011

To mold and shape versus plan and execute. She worked her way up from receptionist to executive director, switched directions to passionately pursue developing her skills as an educational content specialist and is now a consultant. She got her CAE (Certified Association Executive) just to prove she knows what she’s doing.

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Association Subculture

NOVEMBER 17, 2010

She worked her way up from receptionist to executive director, switched directions to passionately pursue developing her skills as an educational content specialist and is now a consultant. She got her CAE (Certified Association Executive) just to prove she knows what she’s doing.

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Association Subculture

JULY 23, 2012

She worked her way up from receptionist to executive director, switched directions to passionately pursue developing her skills as an educational content specialist and is now a consultant. She got her CAE (Certified Association Executive) just to prove she knows what she’s doing.

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Association Subculture

OCTOBER 11, 2011

She worked her way up from receptionist to executive director, switched directions to passionately pursue developing her skills as an educational content specialist and is now a consultant. She got her CAE (Certified Association Executive) just to prove she knows what she’s doing.

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Association Subculture

DECEMBER 29, 2010

She worked her way up from receptionist to executive director, switched directions to passionately pursue developing her skills as an educational content specialist and is now a consultant. She got her CAE (Certified Association Executive) just to prove she knows what she’s doing.

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Association Subculture

SEPTEMBER 21, 2011

She worked her way up from receptionist to executive director, switched directions to passionately pursue developing her skills as an educational content specialist and is now a consultant. She got her CAE (Certified Association Executive) just to prove she knows what she’s doing.

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Association Subculture

AUGUST 24, 2011

She worked her way up from receptionist to executive director, switched directions to passionately pursue developing her skills as an educational content specialist and is now a consultant. She got her CAE (Certified Association Executive) just to prove she knows what she’s doing.

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Association Subculture

NOVEMBER 24, 2010

She worked her way up from receptionist to executive director, switched directions to passionately pursue developing her skills as an educational content specialist and is now a consultant. She got her CAE (Certified Association Executive) just to prove she knows what she’s doing.

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Association Subculture

JUNE 11, 2013

Alcorn Associates Management Consulting has partnered with the California Society of Association Executives (CalSAE) to begin a new learner-centric educational program called IDEAL. Well okay then, let''s stop talking about it and do it. IDEAL stands for In-Depth Education Association Laboratory.

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