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Leadership Limerick: Innovation Requires Many Contributions

Idea Architects

Every Monday, I offer a leadership limerick, highlighting an idea or strategy about effective leadership in limerick form. When it comes to innovation, too many people think of the lone genius who invents some breakthrough product, instead of a diverse team with each member contributing different perspectives and roles to create new value.

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Governance and Strategy: Steps from Administrative Management to Strategic Leadership

SCD Group

The Solution: The society was volunteer-managed until 2003, then contracted with a firm for administrative support. The board had been successful growing the organization to that point by being hands on, with concrete tasks and deadlines. So why change? They began working with The Sherwood Group in 2009.

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Flexibility Is Key: Why the Top-Down Strategy Is Fading

Associations Now

“Organizations seeking to maximize the economic and productivity benefits made possible by mobile technologies must look beyond simply which devices are used and re-examine business processes and workforce needs,” the group said in a press release. Flip your Top-down Strategy. A Blast From the Past. Bottoms up.

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Jeffrey Cufaude, Idea Architects: Making Sponsorship Special Again

Idea Architects

Since we are an advertising savvy people, I believe almost all of these efforts to attract our attention to a company’s name or products go almost unnoticed. Perhaps even more egregious is how organizations have conditioned their members and customers to get great products or programs at a. Oct 2003 (1). Sep 2003 (2).

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Digital Privacy Compliance for Nonprofits: The Big 3 Laws

Achieve

But with the increased importance of data to your strategies comes an increased responsibility to use data properly and respectfully, not to mention legally. Regulation #1: The CAN-SPAM Act The CAN-SPAM Act was passed into US law in 2003, and it protects consumers from receiving emails that they never agreed to receive.

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3 New Year’s Rituals for Nonprofit Professionals to Build Resilience

Beth Kanter

Rituals can also be used by professionals to boost personal productivity because rituals capitalize on our brains’ ability to direct our behavior on autopilot, allowing us to reach our goals even when we are distracted or preoccupied with other things. .” Rituals are intentional small, tangible acts done routinely and carry meaning.

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Bringing Credibility to the Conversation: Katie Butler, IIABA

Association Adviser

IIABA is a national alliance of more than a quarter million business owners and their employees who offer all types of insurance and financial services products. Katie has served IIABA since 2003 and has helmed the communications department since communications since 2004. How did you come to work for an association?

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