The Hourglass Blog

MAY 11, 2011

Association Innovation as Brand Strategy. Leadership. Leadership Potential of GenX. Daring to Lead 2006. Association Innovation as Brand Strategy. skip to main | skip to sidebar. Wednesday, May 11, 2011. Heres a post from the usually lucid Michael Schrage that Im not sure I buy. Association Management. Governance.

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Association Subculture

OCTOBER 4, 2010

However, in 2006, rates of suicide among persons aged 45--54 years in the United States surpassed those for persons aged ≥80 years. 2006 was a bad year for Generation X/early boomer 40-somethings and all indications are suicide rates from 2008 to current will be even higher. SAVE - Suicide Awareness Voices for Education - [link].

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The Hourglass Blog

JUNE 23, 2010

Read this April 1 blog post from Umair Haque on social media and social strategies. Read his take on social media strategy, which he boils down very well to: 1. Social media fits inside your business strategy, and is shaped by it. Social strategy fits outside your business strategy, and shapes it. Leadership.

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The Hourglass Blog

JUNE 11, 2010

Heres another post from Harvard Business Reviews series on Imagining the Future of Leadership that caught my attention. The blogger, Michael Beer , thinks Ludwigs strategy of openness and transparency is rare among senior executives, but will necessarily characterize the leaders of the future. Labels: GenX Perspectives , Leadership.

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The Hourglass Blog

APRIL 21, 2011

The HBR post describes several strategies employed by the very famous and very innovative Mayo Clinic. 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). Leadership. Leadership Potential of GenX.

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The Hourglass Blog

MAY 16, 2011

Normally I would just retweet something of his I find especially compelling, but given my last blog post of approaching innovation as an exercise in brand strategy, I thought Id expound a little more on something I read on Seths blog this week. Leadership. Leadership Potential of GenX. Daring to Lead 2006. Baby Boomers.

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The Hourglass Blog

JUNE 17, 2010

Let’s talk strategy. Staff does operations and Board does strategy. Leadership. Leadership Potential of GenX. Daring to Lead 2006. Innovation Needs "Leadership from Behind" ► May. (5). Don’t waste the Boards time on operations. Association Management. Baby Boomers. Communication.

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The Hourglass Blog

SEPTEMBER 21, 2010

As part of our effort to develop an evidence-based model of innovation for the association community, we want to provide a way for associations to determine where they are on the continuum of innovative practice, and plug them into a set of proven strategies tailored for their own position. Precise strategy. Leadership.

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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

SEPTEMBER 27, 2010

As part of our effort to develop an evidence-based model of innovation for the association community, we want to provide a way for associations to determine where they are on the continuum of innovative practice, and plug them into a set of proven strategies tailored for their own position. Leadership. Leadership Potential of GenX.

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The Hourglass Blog

JANUARY 31, 2011

By aggregating this information together, well be better positioned to develop successful strategies for overcoming them. " is an important question to ask, and one that could be used to test whether or not your leadership is committed to a culture of innovation. Leadership. Leadership Potential of GenX. Governance.

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The Hourglass Blog

FEBRUARY 25, 2011

First dates are all about strategies that both parties can agree to but which wont help them learn if the date was effective. Dan calls this "bad equilibrium"--a strategy that doesnt result in a positive outcome for anyone. Leadership. Leadership Potential of GenX. Daring to Lead 2006. Association Management.

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The Hourglass Blog

AUGUST 8, 2011

Its a strategy thats definitely biased towards large organizations with large resources at its disposal. Leadership. Leadership Potential of GenX. Daring to Lead 2006. Thoughts on Association Education. This frankly seems crazy to me. Govindarajan admits as much near the end of the video. Association Management.

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The Hourglass Blog

DECEMBER 14, 2010

The principles of innovation in the WSAE white paper on Innovation for Associations talk about the need to make sure the top leadership of your association embraces a culture of innovation. Rather, a strategy to define innovation in terms understood and mechanisms relied upon by the current leadership culture could also make a difference.

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The Hourglass Blog

NOVEMBER 26, 2010

In addition to being a great networking site, we will be using the levels of innovation readiness described in our white paper (and here , here and here on Hourglass) to structure and conduct facilitated conversations in this community, with the hope that they will help us identify and validate practical strategies for innovative practice.

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The Hourglass Blog

OCTOBER 3, 2010

I generally find her to be one of the more positive voices about Generation X and its leadership capabilities. Given the thesis she has laid out, heres the one I found most interesting: You asked: How do we blend our strengths with the Boomers experience so we can be perceived as "ready" to make a smooth transition into leadership?

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GlowGlobally

NOVEMBER 25, 2008

global association strategy, regional planning and local infrastructure to grow your business. 1 in the KPMG Competitive Alternatives Study 2006 – most cost competitive city for business analyzing 27 cost components, including wages, freight, business taxes, rent and utilities. #1 Education (5). GrowGlobally.org.

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The Hourglass Blog

MARCH 27, 2011

With that as his context, in this post he rips into traditional mechanisms of marketing, espousing a new strategy for engaging with customers, something he calls "listening up." Leadership. Leadership Potential of GenX. Daring to Lead 2006. Fear and Loathing in Association Leadership. A Modern View of Leadership.

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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." Labels: Association Management , Leadership. Leadership. Leadership Potential of GenX. Daring to Lead 2006. Association Innovation as Brand Strategy. skip to main | skip to sidebar. Sunday, May 1, 2011.

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The Hourglass Blog

JULY 17, 2010

By examining how innovation is successfully employed by the organizations profiled we hope to identify practical strategies for applying innovation in the association environment. The culture of innovation was driven from the top of the organization Like most organizational cultures, innovation began with the leadership of the organization.

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The Hourglass Blog

NOVEMBER 14, 2010

Theres more work ahead for the Task Force as we begin to flesh out the details of these three levels, looking to work with organizations that have developed successful strategies for each objective. Leadership. Leadership Potential of GenX. Daring to Lead 2006. I wonder if Govindarajans book would be worth a read.

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The Hourglass Blog

MAY 21, 2011

There are four questions that relate to the leadership culture of your organization, but I think the most critical one is this: Is your leadership willing to drive cultural change in your organization if that is what is needed to achieve your goals? Leadership. Leadership Potential of GenX. Daring to Lead 2006.

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The Hourglass Blog

APRIL 16, 2011

In my current world of trade associations I see the same dynamic, and my strategy with these businesses is simply to put them on a watch list, waiting for a change in leadership at the top that may signal a willingness to take another look. Leadership. Leadership Potential of GenX. Daring to Lead 2006. Governance.

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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. Leadership. Leadership Potential of GenX.

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The Hourglass Blog

OCTOBER 9, 2010

In fact, tying this more to the theme of The Hourglass Blog, I suspect that nearly everyone in Generation X with any measure of leadership experience would respond with a "well, duh." Labels: GenX Perspectives , Hype , Leadership. Leadership. Leadership Potential of GenX. To which I react with a big "well, duh."

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The Hourglass Blog

SEPTEMBER 3, 2010

The boards dont ensure that the organization has a sound strategy, they tolerate mediocrity in management, they dont hold the organization accountable for results, and they dont ensure that resources are adequate to accomplish goals. Leadership. Leadership Potential of GenX. Daring to Lead 2006. Association Management.

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The Hourglass Blog

AUGUST 28, 2010

In this environment, associations have developed several successful strategies for identifying common objectives, creating partnerships, and dealing with dissension and debate—all based on helping diverse constituencies focus on the elements that unite them. Leadership. Leadership Potential of GenX. Daring to Lead 2006.

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The Hourglass Blog

MAY 26, 2011

Leadership. Leadership Potential of GenX. Daring to Lead 2006. Association Innovation as Brand Strategy. Association Management. Baby Boomers. Communication. Developing Millennial Leaders. Encore Careers. For-Profit vs. Non-Profit. Generation Basics. Generation Jones. Generational Change in Sports. GenX Perspectives.

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The Hourglass Blog

MAY 31, 2011

In a marketplace increasingly dominated by LinkedIn groups, Facebook pages and Twitter feeds (and even given the fact that we’re dabbling in all those areas) our leadership has correctly positioned the human interaction that goes on at our conferences as an intrinsic piece of our membership value proposition. Leadership.

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The Hourglass Blog

OCTOBER 24, 2011

At the end of it, we made the following commitment: Each of us will commit to a specific objective in our own organization that increases our use of co-creation or participatory decision-making in program development of strategy setting. Leadership. Leadership Potential of GenX. Daring to Lead 2006. We will then: 1.

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The Hourglass Blog

FEBRUARY 20, 2011

I wrote before how narrating your work is a very smart strategy because it lets you be helpful to others, and also increases the chances that they can help you. I'm blocked from moving into leadership by Boomers who it seems (she says cynically) may nver retire and millennials who have made it clear that they are next in line.

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The Hourglass Blog

JULY 18, 2011

Theyre both discussing the rise on online and non-traditional influencers in associations, and how these thought leaders and the followers they attract are changing the leadership dynamic in our community. As you said, the market intelligence needs to get into the strategy conversations. I sympathize. Theyre not interested. at 7:00 AM.

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Association Adviser

SEPTEMBER 27, 2017

Founded in 1942, NASBP educates about the importance of surety bonds for a stable and growing American economy, advances the role of surety professionals, and advocates for increased access to and preservation of surety bonding practices. In existence since 1935, the Miller Act became indexed for inflation in 2006.

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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. Leadership. Leadership Potential of GenX. Daring to Lead 2006. Its not because I dont want to do it [or] Im lazy. August 31, 2010 3:04 PM. Frank Fortin.

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Idea Architects

JULY 9, 2012

custom-designing keynotes, workshops, and leadership conferences that promote innovation, learning, and community. Just as we emphasize the 3Rs in our educational system, so might we want to emphasize 3Rs in our leadership efforts: relationships, relevancy, and reflection. July 29, New Orleans, NYIB Leadership Pre-Conference.

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The Hourglass Blog

MAY 6, 2011

Get your education while youre young, build a successful and progressively impactful career, retire, and relax for your few remaining golden years. Heres an idea: No more front-loading education. We already know that education needs to go on throughout life. Leadership. Leadership Potential of GenX. Baby Boomers.

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Association Subculture

APRIL 30, 2010

Back in 2006 the Daily Show did a classic bit with Jon Hodgman referenced above that is still good for a chuckle albeit a nervous one when contemplating what it really means. She is determined to see associations continue to serve as a bulwark of adult education in the United States. education. (1). leadership. (9).

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