The Hourglass Blog

APRIL 21, 2011

Born in 2006 as the brainchild of Dr. Nick LaRusso, the CFI was first called the SPARC Lab (with the acronym standing for its methodology: see, plan, act, refine, and communicate). The leadership has to be serious about it, model the same behavior, and go out of their way to define it as part of what the organization does. Leadership.

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The Hourglass Blog

AUGUST 1, 2011

If you’ve struggled at all with how to make your association more innovative, this would be an excellent opportunity to share your challenges and work together with your peers to develop actionable solutions. Association Management. Leadership. Leadership Potential of GenX. Management.

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The Hourglass Blog

MAY 1, 2011

Back in November, the HBR blog ran a series of posts on "Leadership Lessons from the Military." My first thing I remember being taught how to do at my first association job was filling out the form the accounting department needed in order to cash the checks coming in for exhibit space. Association Management.

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The Hourglass Blog

MARCH 22, 2011

Association Management. Leadership. Leadership Potential of GenX. Management. Daring to Lead 2006. Association Subculture. Fear and Loathing in Association Leadership. A Modern View of Leadership. How to Tell if You Have a Bad Board. Jennifer Alluisi. Discussion Topics.

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The Hourglass Blog

MARCH 27, 2011

And where should I find inspiration for how to resolve this conundrum? Association Management. Leadership. Leadership Potential of GenX. Management. Daring to Lead 2006. Association Subculture. Fear and Loathing in Association Leadership. A Modern View of Leadership.

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The Hourglass Blog

JANUARY 26, 2011

The first guy out of the box accuses Trimble of not understanding how to manage very talented softwate engineers. Association Management. Leadership. Leadership Potential of GenX. Management. Daring to Lead 2006. Association Subculture. Without execution, youre not innovating.

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The Hourglass Blog

APRIL 26, 2011

Its just that most of these efforts are resource constrained, and its clear that teams will get more bang for their buck talking to customers, developing prototypes, sharing those prototypes with customers, filling key leadership team gaps and so on, than they will from rigorous data. Labels: Association Management , Innovation.

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The Hourglass Blog

SEPTEMBER 15, 2010

Remember that our long term goal here is to create an evidence-based model for innovation in the association community, one replete with tested and practical strategies for how to "do" innovation in an association. Heres the first: Does your leadership embrace innovation as one of the strategies necessary to achieve your goals?

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The Hourglass Blog

MARCH 2, 2011

Association Management. Leadership. Leadership Potential of GenX. Management. Daring to Lead 2006. Association Subculture. Fear and Loathing in Association Leadership. A Modern View of Leadership. How to Tell if You Have a Bad Board. Jennifer Alluisi. Discussion Topics.

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The Hourglass Blog

JANUARY 16, 2011

• Innovation is getting the older generation to let loose the reins of control and fast track members of the younger generation into leadership positions. ” • “If I don’t figure out how to get the dead weight off my board they’re going to drag my association down into utter irrelevancy.”

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The Hourglass Blog

SEPTEMBER 19, 2011

I started this adventure almost three years ago with the intention of exploring the impact of generational shift on the leadership of our organizations and, while I have certainly done that, I have explored a number of other topics as well. Association Management. Leadership. Leadership Potential of GenX.

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The Hourglass Blog

NOVEMBER 8, 2010

As the workforce ages and as more younger workers move into management roles, your boss is likely to be younger than you. You probably know more about what to do and how to do than she does. I believe they are, and may, in fact, be better prepared for that kind of management than the preceding generation was at the same age.

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The Hourglass Blog

APRIL 6, 2011

It succinctly states one of the fundamental challenges that medical residents face in learning how to be specialists—the long duty hours they are forced to work without sleep. Who are they to tell me how to train my residents? I learned how to be a specialist this way, and by god, so will they! Association Management.

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The Hourglass Blog

FEBRUARY 5, 2011

” So “the silent, sullen boy at the mall’s game store may be next in line for an underemployed, lonely adulthood if we don’t teach him how to maintain effective social contacts with others.” ” Then I read this post from Andrew McAfee about how the connected habits of Millennials are benefting organizations.

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The Hourglass Blog

AUGUST 22, 2010

So I finally got around to reading the article in the August 2010 issue of Associations Now about Generation X moving into leadership positions in the association world. Boomers long ago figured out how to make their work their life. Millennials, conversely, are busy figuring out how to make their life their work.

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The Hourglass Blog

MARCH 12, 2011

A Modern View of Leadership. Thats almost as good as Bill George telling us to be authentic after publishing a book called Authentic Leadership. Much of it consists of the usual motherhood statements about trust and purpose characteristic of a very old-fashioned concept of leadership. So what is a more modern view of leadership?

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The Hourglass Blog

SEPTEMBER 12, 2011

There is a common body of innovation knowledge we can all draw from--things that have been shown to help and things that have been shown to hurt--but it is up to each one of us to study that body of knowledge and figure out how to apply it in our own situations. Association Management. Leadership. Management.

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