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Jeff De Cagna elected chair of RedRover Board of Directors

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Founded in 1987, RedRover is a national organization headquartered in Sacramento, California that focuses on bringing animals out of crisis and strengthening the bond between people and animals through a variety of programs, including emergency sheltering, disaster relief services, financial assistance and education.

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Join Jeff for P.I./TMA Resources Executive Breakfast on March 6 in Alexandria, Virginia

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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).

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Making Innovation Happen Survey: Preliminary Results

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This fall, I will be releasing an executive briefing memo, building on the survey results, that will offer specific advice and guidance to association CEOs on how to advance their innovation efforts. Please sign up today for P.I.’s s new Serious Questions electronic newsletter! In preparation for ASAE's Annual Meeting next week, P.I.

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Associations Unorthodox e-book available on August 8

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” 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. Eliminate budgets.

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Associations Unorthodox Shift #2: Crowdsource strategy

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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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Overcoming the association value gap: part I

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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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Empathy, new value creation and the stakeholders of the future

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On the other hand, Maria Konnikova, author of Mastermind: How to Think Like Sherlock Holmes , argues for an emotionless form of “sterilized empathy” such as that practiced by the famous fictional detective: Usually, when we think of empathy, it evokes feelings of warmth and comfort, of being intrinsically an emotional phenomenon.