The Hourglass Blog

JANUARY 26, 2011

Innovating 20% of the Time. Chris Trimble is skeptical of Googles 20% time--their stated practice of encouraging individuals to spend 20 percent of their time pursuing innovative projects of their own inspiration. And execution, as Trimble says, is the other side of innovation. Without execution, youre not innovating.

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Idea Architects

FEBRUARY 12, 2012

custom-designing keynotes, workshops, and leadership conferences that promote innovation, learning, and community. Engaging Members to Crowdsource Solutions and Innovations. Companies increasingly look to customer-generated innovations, co-creating products and services with the input and effort of end users. Dec 2006 (3).

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Idea Architects

NOVEMBER 14, 2011

custom-designing keynotes, workshops, and leadership conferences that promote innovation, learning, and community. Any virtual event might also benefit from an in-person option, and any face-to-face meeting should explore how to incorporate virtual participation. Dec 2006 (3). Oct 2006 (1). Sep 2006 (4).

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Idea Architects

DECEMBER 27, 2011

custom-designing keynotes, workshops, and leadership conferences that promote innovation, learning, and community. While others around the blogosphere and in print media offer tips on how to craft better resolutions, Im more fixated on having resolve and achieving resolution. Dec 2006 (3). Oct 2006 (1). Sep 2006 (4).

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Wild Apricot

JUNE 27, 2008

Im Rebecca Leaman, and its my pleasure to join the Wild Apricot blog team in exploring how to use the internet and web 2.0 Principled Innovation LLC. If you have a great blog related to how non-profits use technology, please send a suggestion to rebecca @ wildapricot.com. How to Set Up a Non-Profit Facebook Page.

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Idea Architects

DECEMBER 12, 2011

custom-designing keynotes, workshops, and leadership conferences that promote innovation, learning, and community. Get just a taste of what this session covers in this short, two-page CalSAE magazine article , or watch a longer video of the opening session I did for this falls ASAE InnovationTalks day. Dec 2006 (3). Awesome Inc.

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The Hourglass Blog

SEPTEMBER 15, 2010

Whats Your Innovation Readiness? Regular readers of The Hourglass Blog know that Im chairing the Innovation Task Force for the Wisconsin Society of Association Executives. The "innovation readiness" tool will also provide a framework for this discussion, and will help us organize the strategies we hope to develop.

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Idea Architects

JUNE 11, 2012

custom-designing keynotes, workshops, and leadership conferences that promote innovation, learning, and community. P.S. If your volunteer colleagues struggle to thing about how to organize work in the networked world in which we operate, challenge them to develop a workplace staffing model based on part-timers, temps, and consultants.

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Idea Architects

JUNE 4, 2012

custom-designing keynotes, workshops, and leadership conferences that promote innovation, learning, and community. The conversation that needs to occur may be difficult, but Im not sure training people on how to have difficult conversations is the answer people need. The best way to learn how to do that is to be asked to do so.

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Idea Architects

MARCH 19, 2012

custom-designing keynotes, workshops, and leadership conferences that promote innovation, learning, and community. It is exhausting not being you, trying to remember how to play the part youve created for yourself in order to be accepted by others. Dec 2006 (3). Oct 2006 (1). Sep 2006 (4). Aug 2006 (3).

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Idea Architects

APRIL 9, 2012

custom-designing keynotes, workshops, and leadership conferences that promote innovation, learning, and community. Competence to get the job done: Do you demonstrate through your actions that you know what you are talking about and know how to produce the desired results? Dec 2006 (3). Oct 2006 (1). Sep 2006 (4).

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Idea Architects

MAY 7, 2012

custom-designing keynotes, workshops, and leadership conferences that promote innovation, learning, and community. That knows how to live outside the law as well as within it.” Dec 2006 (3). Oct 2006 (1). Sep 2006 (4). Aug 2006 (3). Jul 2006 (2). Jun 2006 (6). Apr 2006 (1).

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Idea Architects

OCTOBER 26, 2011

custom-designing keynotes, workshops, and leadership conferences that promote innovation, learning, and community. Its a very hands-on event and we explore facilitation fundamentals, tools and techniques for meetings and discussions, and how to manage common group dynamics situations. Dec 2006 (3). Oct 2006 (1).

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Idea Architects

NOVEMBER 8, 2011

custom-designing keynotes, workshops, and leadership conferences that promote innovation, learning, and community. Dec 2006 (3). Oct 2006 (1). Sep 2006 (4). Aug 2006 (3). Jul 2006 (2). Jun 2006 (6). Apr 2006 (1). Mar 2006 (2). Feb 2006 (2). Jeffrey Cufaude, Idea Architects.

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The Hourglass Blog

MARCH 7, 2011

How to Tell if You Have a Bad Board. I think Ive mentioned before that one of the things I like to do on Hourglass is look at policies and practices in the for-profit world and see how they compare or can be applied to associations. My work on the WSAE Innovation Task Force came almost entirely from this mindset. Innovation.

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Idea Architects

JANUARY 9, 2012

custom-designing keynotes, workshops, and leadership conferences that promote innovation, learning, and community. We merely need to learn how to evoke them.". Dec 2006 (3). Oct 2006 (1). Sep 2006 (4). Aug 2006 (3). Jul 2006 (2). Jun 2006 (6). Apr 2006 (1). Mar 2006 (2).

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Idea Architects

JUNE 29, 2012

custom-designing keynotes, workshops, and leadership conferences that promote innovation, learning, and community. Facilitation: How to Maximize Individuals Contributions and Commitments on Tuesday, August 21, in Washington, DC, for the American Society of. Dec 2006 (3). Oct 2006 (1). Sep 2006 (4). Aug 2006 (3).

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Idea Architects

JANUARY 2, 2012

custom-designing keynotes, workshops, and leadership conferences that promote innovation, learning, and community. What are the consequences of stealing that individual’s right to make his or her own decisions and to learn how to manage the consequences of them? Dec 2006 (3). Oct 2006 (1). Sep 2006 (4).

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Idea Architects

JUNE 15, 2012

custom-designing keynotes, workshops, and leadership conferences that promote innovation, learning, and community. Facilitation: How to Maximize Individuals Contributions and Commitments on Tuesday, August 21, in Washington, DC, for the American Society of. Dec 2006 (3). Oct 2006 (1). Sep 2006 (4). Aug 2006 (3).

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Idea Architects

JANUARY 23, 2012

custom-designing keynotes, workshops, and leadership conferences that promote innovation, learning, and community. “To be as authentic as we know how to be at the moment, so that we can be more and more present in what we do. lose that vitality and then suddenly look around and wonder how you floated to your spot.

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Idea Architects

JUNE 1, 2012

custom-designing keynotes, workshops, and leadership conferences that promote innovation, learning, and community. Help the group consider if some portion of the idea might have merit and how to build upon it. Dec 2006 (3). Oct 2006 (1). Sep 2006 (4). Aug 2006 (3). Jul 2006 (2). Jun 2006 (6).

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Idea Architects

APRIL 3, 2012

custom-designing keynotes, workshops, and leadership conferences that promote innovation, learning, and community. In 2010 and 2011, a diverse cross-section of ASAE staff, volunteers, and members convened regularly as members of the Innovation Task Force. Jeffrey Cufaude, Idea Architects. Jeffrey Cufaude is an architect of ideas.

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Idea Architects

JUNE 22, 2012

custom-designing keynotes, workshops, and leadership conferences that promote innovation, learning, and community. Just as innovators use rapid prototyping to put out a draft, get feedback, and rapidly offer an improved next iteration, so can we do the same with the strategy generation we help facilitate. Dec 2006 (3).

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Idea Architects

JUNE 8, 2012

custom-designing keynotes, workshops, and leadership conferences that promote innovation, learning, and community. In these moments, our role as facilitators is to help the group decide how to manage whats popped up: is it a useful temporary detour or a distraction that will put us on the road to nowhere ? Dec 2006 (3).

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Idea Architects

MARCH 9, 2012

custom-designing keynotes, workshops, and leadership conferences that promote innovation, learning, and community. In order for us to do anything with each other, we first have to understand how we want to be with each other. .” Dec 2006 (3). Oct 2006 (1). Sep 2006 (4). Aug 2006 (3). Jul 2006 (2).

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Idea Architects

JANUARY 3, 2012

custom-designing keynotes, workshops, and leadership conferences that promote innovation, learning, and community. The question posed to me was this: How are you going to change the world in 2012? I guess each of us has to decide how to assess what impact is most important to us. Dec 2006 (3). Oct 2006 (1).

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Idea Architects

MAY 11, 2012

custom-designing keynotes, workshops, and leadership conferences that promote innovation, learning, and community. Dec 2006 (3). Oct 2006 (1). Sep 2006 (4). Aug 2006 (3). Jul 2006 (2). Jun 2006 (6). Apr 2006 (1). Mar 2006 (2). Feb 2006 (2). Jeffrey Cufaude, Idea Architects.

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Idea Architects

NOVEMBER 30, 2011

custom-designing keynotes, workshops, and leadership conferences that promote innovation, learning, and community. And if youd like to go beyond just not having your towels changed, becoming a real partner in sustainability efforts, here are some previously published thoughts about how to be an Eco Guest. Dec 2006 (3).

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Idea Architects

MARCH 23, 2012

custom-designing keynotes, workshops, and leadership conferences that promote innovation, learning, and community. It may seem at first that sharing youre not sure what to do or how to help makes you vulnerable in front of a group, but Id like to suggest the opposite. Dec 2006 (3). Oct 2006 (1). Sep 2006 (4).

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The Hourglass Blog

MARCH 27, 2011

In my last post , I talked about something I called the Catch-22 of innovation. Your association wants to deliver new innovative products that meet the needs of your members, so you ask and poll them incessantly about their needs, wants and desires. And where should I find inspiration for how to resolve this conundrum?

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The Hourglass Blog

APRIL 26, 2011

Acting with a knowledge of what your members need and want is important to innovation. Labels: Association Management , Innovation. Innovation. Daring to Lead 2006. Principled Innovation. TED Talk Videos. Learning Innovation from the Mayo Clinic. Image source. Posted by Eric Lanke. at 8:28 PM.

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The Hourglass Blog

MARCH 17, 2011

Innovation. Daring to Lead 2006. Principled Innovation. TED Talk Videos. The Catch-22 of Innovation. How to Tell if You Have a Bad Board. Id say those numbers hold true for association CEOs as well. GenX Perspectives. Governance. Leadership. Leadership Potential of GenX. Management. Membership. Millennials.

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The Hourglass Blog

MAY 1, 2011

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. Innovation. Daring to Lead 2006. Principled Innovation. TED Talk Videos. The Innovation Problem for Associations.

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The Hourglass Blog

SEPTEMBER 19, 2011

The people who can't write today will eventually learn how to write (hopefully) and will then criticize their followers for some other glaring flaw. They will definitely criticize the next generation for some glaring flaw, David, but I'm not convinced they will ever learn how to write. Innovation. Daring to Lead 2006.

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The Hourglass Blog

NOVEMBER 8, 2010

You probably know more about what to do and how to do than she does. Innovation. Daring to Lead 2006. Principled Innovation. TED Talk Videos. Next Steps for Association Innovation. The Bedrock of Innovation. Innovation = Creativity x Execution. GenX Perspectives. Governance. Leadership.

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The Hourglass Blog

MARCH 2, 2011

Innovation. Daring to Lead 2006. Principled Innovation. TED Talk Videos. The Catch-22 of Innovation. How to Tell if You Have a Bad Board. GenX Perspectives. Governance. Leadership. Leadership Potential of GenX. Management. Membership. Millennials. Organizational Structure. Pretending GenX Doesnt Exist.

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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! Innovation.

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