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Steve Jobs and the Focus of the CEO

Jamie Notter

The company does a great job, innovates and becomes a monopoly or close to it in some field, and then the quality of the product becomes less important. The product starts valuing the great salesmen, because they’re the ones who can move the needle on revenues, not the product engineers and designers. Want Innovation?

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Membership Marketing Blog: Innovation through Collaboration

Membership Marketing

Innovation through Collaboration. We are always looking for new innovative ways to do things better. So I wanted to share two items that I came across this week that attribute successful innovation to collaboration. First, innovation is collaborative. Where do you find your place to innovate through collaboration?

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Jeffrey Cufaude, Idea Architects: Seen Elsewhere: Building Creative.

Idea Architects

custom-designing keynotes, workshops, and leadership conferences that promote innovation, learning, and community. Books like The Medici Effect , by Frans Johannson, and Where Good Ideas Come From , by Steven Johnson, confirm what weve long known: innovation in one field often occurs when an idea from another is associated into a new context.

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Medical Scribes: Industry Group Says Field Rising Quickly

Associations Now

With electronic filing systems becoming the rule of the day at doctor’s offices and hospitals, the medical scribe field is increasingly becoming an important one for an industry that’s putting handwritten doctor’s notes in the rear-view mirror.

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Association Subculture: Words Make Worlds - Part 6 - Advocacy vs.

Association Subculture

Godwin at Case Western - Positive Organization Development: Innovation-inspired Change in an Economy and Ecology of Strengths. This paper is a MUST READ for anyone interested in innovation in our association community. We often attempt to think innovatively while not recognizing the common terminology we use can work to block us in.

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The Hidden Costs of Inefficiency

Associations Now

Between 2000 and 2010, the city’s MetroCard system was an unexpected profit center for the city, as passengers let $500 million in prepaid fares expire, according to The New York Times. It gets counted as fare box revenue,” MTA spokesman Kevin Ortiz told The Times. In 2012 alone, this meant about $95 million for the MTA.

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Peace Sells.But Who's Buying - Association Membership?

Association Subculture

What do you mean I dont support your system? Pay to play" is stifling innovation, undermining progress and damaging our democracy. A dues system does not allow that kind of flexibility. We cant simply eliminate what may be our largest source of revenue and still do business the same way we always have.