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Jeffrey Cufaude, Idea Architects: The Cost of Not Being You

Idea Architects

custom-designing keynotes, workshops, and leadership conferences that promote innovation, learning, and community. The Cost of Not Being You. "We When we stand out from the crowd, when we do not conform to others expectations, we often have to pay a cost. So yes, the cost of being you will sometimes be great.

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Three Challenges – Three Opportunities

Spark Consulting

Per Marketing General’s annual Membership Marketing Benchmarking Report , the Q4 2007 economic crash didn’t fully show up in association metrics until 2009. As we look to 2021, I see three main membership challenges for associations: Remember that membership is a lagging indicator.

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The Cost of a Neglectful Board

Associations Now

DVNF launched in 2007 as a spinoff group from the National Association of State Women’s Veterans Coordinators, ostensibly to collect funds supporting wounded veterans. It may be that the nonprofit world obsesses too much about overhead costs as a measure of success, but DVNF was disastrously mismanaged no matter how you look at it.

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From the Corner Office: John Graham, ASAE The Center for Association Leadership

Association Adviser

John Graham, president of ASAE The Center for Association Leadership is our Corner Office profile subject this month. Non-dues revenue (NDR) is essential to keeping the cost of dues down. In terms of membership and revenue growth, do you think associations have bounced all the way back from the 2007-08 recession?

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The Feeling of Failure

Jamie Notter

Leadership insight.right when you need it. But as Seth Godin points out in a recent post , what we are actually afraid of is the FEELING of failure, not the actual impact or costs of the failure. Leadership. December 2007 (8). November 2007 (14). October 2007 (12). September 2007 (17). July 2007 (13).

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Have too much to do? You're doing to much

Jamie Notter

Leadership insight.right when you need it. Maybe that determination–that complicated cost/benefit analysis that distinguishes between “must have” and “nice to have,” is more difficult these days because the world is so complex. Leadership. December 2007 (8). November 2007 (14).

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Book Review: The Speed of Trust

Jamie Notter

Leadership insight.right when you need it. His main argument is that high-trust workplaces receive two simple but powerful benefits: they get things done faster, and they do it at a lower cost. Leadership. December 2007 (8). November 2007 (14). October 2007 (12). September 2007 (17). August 2007 (18).

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