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LeveLLingUp Life in 2018 - Part 3

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Fast forward to 2016 and I was ending a three year contract with association management software company - Aptify - and heading into the biggest experiment in my professional career. I had experienced a management style I did not enjoy. I was doing work that (while doing my best and totally committed to) was less than inspiring.

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3 Ways to Make Your Schedule Work for You

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It takes practice and a little patience however before long following my advice will have you managing your week like a boss. We all have the same amount of time. There is always time to get things done and have some fun.

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Jeff De Cagna to deliver keynote at CESSE 2013 Annual Meeting

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. “For the CESSE 2103 opening keynote, we wanted a speaker who would confront the deep-seated assumptions of association management head on. As a well-known association provocateur, Jeff is the perfect person for the job.

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Join Jeff for Better Boards Workshop on March 8 in Denver

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The Building Better Boards workshop is intended for association board leaders and members, CEOs, C-Suite/senior executives and staff involved in managing board work. Create a governing process that drives focused and intelligent strategic decision-making.

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Associations Unorthodox Shift #2: Crowdsource strategy

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For many decades, having a strategic plan has been the sine qua non of association management practice. Beyond strategic planning’s well-known failures , it is a school of management thought that is not well-suited to dealing with the “progress challenges” facing all associations today. The Problem.

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Associations Unorthodox #5: Collaborate everywhere

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Instead of concentrating their people in cubicles in Washington, DC, Chicago or New York, associations can equip and deploy staff professionals as part of the new mobile workforce, with the intent of nurturing more meaningful stakeholder connections at the most local level possible.

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Associations Unorthodox Shift #3:Eliminate budgets

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To be clear, my call for the elimination of budgets does not mean the abandonment of vigilant financial management. The elimination of budgets will make it far simpler for associations to adapt to the demands of rapid innovation today and going forward.

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