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Principled Innovation
JULY 11, 2012
During the more than twenty years I have worked in and with associations, it is my guess that organizations throughout our community have committed millions of dollars and hundreds of thousands of hours of staff and voluntary leader time to generate tens of thousands of pages of strategic plans and related documents.
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
JULY 24, 2012
Indeed, for many organizations, the membership imperative defines the very existence of the association: membership is who they are and what they do. Membership is perhaps the most sacred tenet in all of association orthodoxy.
Principled Innovation
JANUARY 30, 2013
Association boards have a unique and critical responsibility for building their organizations to thrive over the next decade and beyond, especially in the realm of business model sustainability. Morning Session on “Five Reasons Why Boards Are Killing Association Business Models” (8:30 am-9:45 am).
Principled Innovation
APRIL 8, 2013
SED is a term I coined to inspire association leaders to shift their conversations about the future in a more generative direction. For association leaders committed to building their organizations to thrive in the years ahead, empathy is anything but a threat. Here is what I wrote about SED [.]
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. The Opportunity. The era of strategic planning is over.
Principled Innovation
APRIL 2, 2013
It is an invention designed to create artificial predictability and a sense of security for risk-averse organizations. We want everyone (or at least everyone who is eligible) to want membership in our organizations, even when membership benefits us more than them, which is almost always. Are you ready to get started?
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