The Hourglass Blog

MARCH 22, 2011

The Catch-22 of Innovation. Lots of good lessons in this HBR post for association professionals looking to be move innovative. Its 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.

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Mizz Information

JUNE 12, 2019

The Community Roundtable, the most trusted voice in community management, has been publishing the industry’s most comprehensive research, The State of Community Management (SOCM), since 2009. Community outcomes can be connected to complex business objectives like innovation, culture change and customer retention.”

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Jamie Notter

FEBRUARY 13, 2012

Leadership insight.right when you need it. Check out this great interview with Andrew McAfee of MIT’s Center for Digital Business on how to talk to CEOs about social media. Leadership. December 2009 (8). November 2009 (7). October 2009 (8). September 2009 (8). August 2009 (9). Consulting.

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The Hourglass Blog

JANUARY 16, 2011

A Prescription for Innovation. This is part of an on-going dialogue between Eric Lanke and Jeff De Cagna on the work of the WSAE Innovation Task Force and the status of innovation in the association community. • Innovation is using technology to streamline operations and deliver new services.

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Jamie Notter

NOVEMBER 14, 2011

Leadership insight.right when you need it. in Humanize , Individual Development , Leadership , Learning , Managing People - 7 comments. In Humanize, in the chapter on How to Be Courageous, Maddie and I point out that courage STARTS with admitting you don’t know. You don’t know how it’s going to end.

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Jamie Notter

APRIL 24, 2012

Leadership insight.right when you need it. Most of what we face is in those bullets above, so let’s figure out how to deal with that rather than lamenting about how hard change is. Figuring out how to have an awesome workplace is hard. Moneyball and Management Innovation. The Results of Management Innovation.

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The Hourglass Blog

APRIL 21, 2011

Learning Innovation from the Mayo Clinic. Heres another great HBR post describing another set of "principles of innovation." I say "another," of course, because of my work with the WSAE Innovation Task Force, where we helped define four key principles of innovation from the case studies we examined in the for-profit sector.

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Jamie Notter

JULY 18, 2012

Leadership insight.right when you need it. ” How to Succeed in the 21st Century Association. Previous post: The Results of Management Innovation. Leadership. December 2009 (8). November 2009 (7). October 2009 (8). September 2009 (8). August 2009 (9). July 2009 (7).

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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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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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Jamie Notter

FEBRUARY 7, 2012

Leadership insight.right when you need it. in Humanize , Leadership , Social Media - 2 comments. Interestingly, the item with one of the smallest gaps was innovation in products, services, and ideas. And note that we think the treatment of customers and employees is actually MORE important than innovative products.

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Thanks For Playing

MAY 9, 2012

Short but solid list this week: Leadership is not about getting your own way. Labels: blog roundup , Eric Lanke , Jeffrey Cufaude , leadership , Maddie Grant. ► 2009. How to Manage Social Employees, Social Media at Events, and Car Talk. The Grassroots Innovation Leader. skip to main | skip to sidebar.

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Jamie Notter

JUNE 21, 2012

Leadership insight.right when you need it. in Humanize , Leadership , Managing People - 4 comments. Most were in agreement that there was great power available in the periphery of our organizations, we just needed to figure out how to set that power free. Moneyball and Management Innovation. Leadership. Consulting.

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Jamie Notter

JUNE 7, 2012

Leadership insight.right when you need it. Failure is when you are trying something new, and you don’t know ahead of time how to make it successful. It’s not like you didn’t know how to spell the word correctly. Eliminating failure would mean doing ONLY what you already know how to do. Consulting.

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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.

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The Hourglass Blog

OCTOBER 27, 2010

A Lost Generation of Leadership? The interview begins with: Q: You have said that the younger generation, people under 45 or so, should be taking over in business because they are showing stronger leadership and more focus on their "true north" than their seniors. skip to main | skip to sidebar. Wednesday, October 27, 2010.

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Jamie Notter

AUGUST 16, 2011

Leadership insight.right when you need it. They have cultures that value inclusion because diversity is prerequisite for creativity, innovation, and change. The book, obviously, will have more on how to do all that. Moneyball and Management Innovation. The Results of Management Innovation. Leadership.

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Jamie Notter

SEPTEMBER 26, 2011

Leadership insight.right when you need it. Thank you, readers of this blog, for listening and commenting and engaging me on all things leadership over the last six years. Moneyball and Management Innovation. The Results of Management Innovation. Leadership. December 2009 (8). November 2009 (7).

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Jamie Notter

MAY 25, 2012

Leadership insight.right when you need it. Of course, we’re also interested in collecting data over time, so even if you don’t want our advice on how to get started, please go over and complete the quick assessment. Moneyball and Management Innovation. Leadership. December 2009 (8). November 2009 (7).

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Jamie Notter

SEPTEMBER 19, 2011

Leadership insight.right when you need it. Now that it’s at least partially live, we’re sprucing up the book website and have links to the free, downloadable worksheets that accompany the four main chapters on how to be open, trustworthy, generative, and courageous. Moneyball and Management Innovation. Leadership.

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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. July 29, New Orleans, NYIB Leadership Pre-Conference.

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Idea Architects

JUNE 11, 2012

custom-designing keynotes, workshops, and leadership conferences that promote innovation, learning, and community. Speaking at a leadership conference for volunteers this weekend, I was reminded why some organizations struggle to get volunteers. July 29, New Orleans, NYIB Leadership Pre-Conference. Dec 2009 (12).

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Jamie Notter

SEPTEMBER 30, 2011

Leadership insight.right when you need it. So we created worksheets that will help you assess the openness of your organization, have some conversations with colleagues about how to be more open, and then develop an action plan. Moneyball and Management Innovation. The Results of Management Innovation. Leadership.

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The Hourglass Blog

MARCH 17, 2011

Fear and Loathing in Association Leadership. Labels: Association Management , Leadership , Social Media. Innovation. Leadership. Leadership Potential of GenX. Principled Innovation. The Catch-22 of Innovation. Fear and Loathing in Association Leadership. A Modern View of Leadership.

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Idea Architects

MAY 16, 2012

custom-designing keynotes, workshops, and leadership conferences that promote innovation, learning, and community. Where TED Talks do so in a video format, ChangeThis does so by releasing attractively-designed manifestos on topics related to leadership and life. Jeffrey Cufaude, Idea Architects. Wednesday, May 16, 2012.

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Jamie Notter

JULY 12, 2011

Leadership insight.right when you need it. in Individual Development , Leadership - 1 comment. Leadership is a system capacity to shape the future. So “leaders” (all of us) understand how their emotional states impact those around them. Want Innovation? Leadership. December 2009 (8).

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Jamie Notter

MARCH 20, 2012

Leadership insight.right when you need it. In part 2, you’ll get to choose one of those four elements and explore in more detail how that element shows up in terms of process and structure, through small-group discussion with your peers. Moneyball and Management Innovation. Leadership. December 2009 (8).

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Association Subculture

OCTOBER 18, 2011

How about your board meetings? We talk so much about creativity and innovation in the association sphere but we know so little about how to actually facilitate their achievement. After I stopped laughing, I started thinking about how many times Ive seen these dynamics play out in the staff room and the board room.

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Thanks For Playing

MARCH 21, 2012

Leadership lessons from James T. Labels: Barbara Ehrenreich , blog roundup , communication , Facebook , fundraising , Harvard Business Review , Joe Gerstandt , leadership , online communities , Shelly Alcorn , Social Fish. ► 2009. How to Manage Social Employees, Social Media at Events, and Car Talk. 21 March 2012.

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Jamie Notter

JANUARY 17, 2012

Leadership insight.right when you need it. in Conflict , Leadership - 4 comments. There is an article in the Volunteer Leadership issue of Associations Now titled, “Balanced Conflict, Better Decisions.” You manage it when the issues are defined at the very beginning, you manage it when you decide how to collect data.

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Idea Architects

APRIL 3, 2012

custom-designing keynotes, workshops, and leadership conferences that promote innovation, learning, and community. Either way, it needs to be addressed because we no longer have ASAE and The Center for Association Leadership. We only have ASAE-The Center for Association Leadership. 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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Jamie Notter

OCTOBER 13, 2011

Leadership insight.right when you need it. Patrick Lencioni offers some ideas on how to do that in his book, Silos Politics and Turf Wars (affiliate link). We also talk about this in Humanize in Chapter 6: How to Be Open. Moneyball and Management Innovation. The Results of Management Innovation. { Leadership.

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Jamie Notter

JANUARY 24, 2012

Leadership insight.right when you need it. Millennials grew up with social media, in an environment where if something they had didn’t work the way they wanted it to, they would use their social networks to figure out how to change it themselves. Moneyball and Management Innovation. The Results of Management Innovation.

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Jamie Notter

DECEMBER 20, 2011

Leadership insight.right when you need it. When you learn how to deal with conflict, you gain the confidence to take action. Moneyball and Management Innovation. The Results of Management Innovation. { Leadership. December 2009 (8). November 2009 (7). October 2009 (8). September 2009 (8).

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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. July 29, New Orleans, NYIB Leadership Pre-Conference. Dec 2009 (12).

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Thanks For Playing

DECEMBER 29, 2011

Authors Maddie Grant and Jamie Notter use the lens of social media to examine our "modern" business, management, and leadership practices and find them au courant.with the Industrial Revolution. ► 2009. How to Manage Social Employees, Social Media at Events, and Car Talk. The Grassroots Innovation Leader.

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