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Three design challenges for 21st century association business models

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Despite these difficulties, tradition continues to trump innovation, as selling memberships remains the all-encompassing logic of association business models. The process challenge: Managing the transition from “form-making” to “form-finding” in business model design.

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Ten “next truths” of governing the 21st century association

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. · Governing is about creating spaces for dissent– When boards openly welcome dissent and embrace the essential role it plays in making organizational progress, the governing process builds greater trust among all stakeholders.

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Join Jeff for Better Boards Workshop on March 8 in Denver

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Join Jeff De Cagna of Principled Innovation on Friday, March 8, 2013 in Denver for a full-day workshop on Building Better Boards , presented by the Colorado Society of Association Executives. Following this workshop, participants will be able to: Implement a high impact process for selecting capable board members.

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Associations Unorthodox Shift #2: Crowdsource strategy

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This process makes it easier to identify serendipitous opportunities for collaboration and experimentation, as well as surface hidden assets that can be used to make innovation happen.

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Associations Unorthodox #5: Collaborate everywhere

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Yet while having a central location to house face-to-face staff and voluntary activity offers certain benefits, the association headquarters also can be the physical embodiment of the bureaucratic inertia and risk aversion that too often slows the pace of organizational progress, especially in the areas of strategy and innovation.

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Associations Unorthodox Shift #3:Eliminate budgets

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This approach challenges association leaders to become more comfortable with short-term ambiguity, better equipped to make good decisions at the pace of the external environment and more open to investing in continuous innovation that can create purposeful and profitable new revenue streams. Additional Thoughts.

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3 Ways to Make Your Schedule Work for You

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In future posts, I will be sure to re-Blog my “Inbox Zero” method and process for triaging all the inputs that hit you every day. The three tips to make your schedule work for you are: Decide when you are going to do things, not when you are going to do them by Design your schedule to suit when you are “on” and when you are not.

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