Idea Architects

DECEMBER 12, 2011

custom-designing keynotes, workshops, and leadership conferences that promote innovation, learning, and community. Monday, December 12, 2011. Leadership Limerick: Gratitude, Not Platitude. Every Monday, I offer a leadership limerick, highlighting an idea or strategy about effective leadership in limerick form.

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Idea Architects

DECEMBER 19, 2011

custom-designing keynotes, workshops, and leadership conferences that promote innovation, learning, and community. Monday, December 19, 2011. Leadership Limerick: The Whole and My Role. Every Monday, I offer a leadership limerick, highlighting an idea or strategy about effective leadership in limerick form.

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The Hourglass Blog

AUGUST 15, 2011

Monday, August 15, 2011. Daring to Lead 2011. I blogged a bit about their 2006 study , so thought I would give the 2011 update a read as well. Its good to hear the generational transition in leadership is actually taking place, and that people are starting to mellow out about it. August 20, 2011 7:44 PM.

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Association Subculture

SEPTEMBER 17, 2010

The Waning Days of Leadership in Association Management. The days of leadership are waning. The debate about "servant leadership". or "innovative leadership". or "visionary leadership". I am so over leadership. But one more blog post about the nature of leadership and Im going to hurl.

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The Hourglass Blog

JUNE 5, 2010

Innovation Needs "Leadership from Behind". Harvard Business Review has been running a blog feature for the past several weeks on Imagining the Future of Leadership. Hill cites three realities that are making this "shepherd" leadership style a necessity. The traditional leadership model just doesnt work.

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The Hourglass Blog

NOVEMBER 7, 2011

Monday, November 7, 2011. Secrets of Innovation. A new post, "Secrets of Innovation," has just gone up there. Labels: Innovation. Communication. Innovation. Leadership. Leadership Potential of GenX. Daring to Lead 2011. Principled Innovation. ▼ 2011. (61). at 7:00 AM.

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The Hourglass Blog

NOVEMBER 28, 2011

Monday, November 28, 2011. Film Directing Lessons in Innovation and Leadership. A new post, "Film Directing Lessons in Innovation and Leadership" has just gone up there. Labels: Innovation , Leadership. Communication. Innovation. Leadership. Leadership Potential of GenX.

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The Hourglass Blog

DECEMBER 19, 2011

Monday, December 19, 2011. Innovation Does Not Happen Online. A new post, "Innovation Does Not Happen Online" has just gone up there. Labels: Innovation. Communication. Innovation. Leadership. Leadership Potential of GenX. Daring to Lead 2011. Principled Innovation. at 7:00 AM.

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The Hourglass Blog

JANUARY 1, 2011

Saturday, January 1, 2011. Are You Looking Forward to 2011? We launched Hourglass in February 2009 with the hope that it would be a conversation--a platform on which in leaders in Generation X and in the other generations could discuss the challenges of leadership itself. And to that end, I have a challenge for you in 2011.

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The Hourglass Blog

AUGUST 1, 2011

Monday, August 1, 2011. The Season of Innovation. Thats certainly what it feels like with the ASAE Annual Meeting next week and the WSAE-sponsored National Summit on Association Innovation five short weeks after that. Labels: Innovation , Jeff De Cagna , WSAE. Communication. Innovation. Leadership.

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The Hourglass Blog

MAY 21, 2011

Saturday, May 21, 2011. The Innovation Problem for Associations. Jeff De Cagna had another great article in the April 2011 issue of Associations Now that I just got around to reading on one of my recent plane rides. The innovation problem for associations is not about process. skip to main | skip to sidebar. Start there.

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The Hourglass Blog

JANUARY 31, 2011

Monday, January 31, 2011. The Innovation Hub for Associations. Ive been blogging about my work with the Innovation Task Force of the Wisconsin Society of Association Executives for a while now. Its called the Innovation Hub for Associations , and can be accessed here. Creating a culture of innovation in your association.

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The Hourglass Blog

DECEMBER 26, 2011

Monday, December 26, 2011. Its Not Innovation If It Only Serves You. A new post, "Its Not Innovation If It Only Serves You" has just gone up there. Labels: Innovation. Communication. Innovation. Leadership. Leadership Potential of GenX. Daring to Lead 2011. Principled Innovation.

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The Hourglass Blog

MAY 11, 2011

Wednesday, May 11, 2011. Association Innovation as Brand Strategy. In it, he advocates an approach to innovation that focuses not on meeting the expressed needs of customers, but on pushing customers to become something theyre not. The best and most enduring innovations make you someone else. Whats Targets innovation ask?

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The Hourglass Blog

JUNE 5, 2011

Sunday, June 5, 2011. Real-World Innovation for Associations. I accepted an invitation from a national professional society to present the information we have developed on innovation in associations at their Board retreat, and help them determine how it applied to them and what specific steps they should take.

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The Hourglass Blog

APRIL 21, 2011

Thursday, April 21, 2011. Learning Innovation from the Mayo Clinic. Heres another great HBR post describing another set of "principles of innovation." The HBR post describes several strategies employed by the very famous and very innovative Mayo Clinic. Combination Innovation. skip to main | skip to sidebar.

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The Hourglass Blog

SEPTEMBER 5, 2011

Monday, September 5, 2011. Recipes for Innovation. He has designed some very innovative tools.and created innovative designs for traditional tools. On one wall -they shared his princples of good design.thought there might be some relevance to your interest in innovation. good design is innovative.

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The Hourglass Blog

MARCH 22, 2011

Tuesday, 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 members cant know what that next innovation is because it doesnt yet exist in their world. Communication. Innovation.

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The Hourglass Blog

MARCH 12, 2011

Saturday, March 12, 2011. A Modern View of Leadership. Thats almost as good as Bill George telling us to be authentic after publishing a book called Authentic Leadership. Much of it consists of the usual motherhood statements about trust and purpose characteristic of a very old-fashioned concept of leadership. Eric Lanke.

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The Hourglass Blog

DECEMBER 14, 2010

The Clinic of Innovation. Heres another fascinating post about innovation from the HBR blog. It describes the first-of-its-kind "Clinic of Innovation" at Oslo University Hospital--an internal unit within the hospital that is set-up to work like an outpatient health clinic.

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The Hourglass Blog

JANUARY 16, 2011

Sunday, 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. Hence our generic definition of innovation.

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The Hourglass Blog

MARCH 17, 2011

Thursday, March 17, 2011. Fear and Loathing in Association Leadership. As I look around the landscape, I see many associations who have embraced social media and who have made it work as a communications and engagement tool for their organizations. Labels: Association Management , Leadership , Social Media. at 8:36 PM.

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The Hourglass Blog

OCTOBER 24, 2011

Monday, October 24, 2011. Why Innovation is Hard. A little over a month ago I attended WSAEs National Summit on Innovation for Associations. The first day of the summit was facilitated by Jeff De Cagna , and its focus was on building new capacities for innovation within the association community. image source.

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The Hourglass Blog

JANUARY 26, 2011

Wednesday, 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. Communication.

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Eric Lanke

DECEMBER 12, 2011

Leadership. Innovation. Monday, December 12, 2011. You must understand how to communicate, build consensus, and deal with conflict. Labels: Leadership. Eric Lanke. Association executive and author. Member Engagement. Generations. Books Read. What Race for Relevance Inadvertently Taught Me About Committees.

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The Hourglass Blog

SEPTEMBER 12, 2011

Monday, September 12, 2011. There is No Recipe for Innovation. Or so seems the conclusion of this fascinating blog post from Tim Leberecht of the the frog design and innovation firm, in which he reviews and connects several established and not-so-established kinds of innovation. image source.

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The Hourglass Blog

NOVEMBER 14, 2010

Innovation = Creativity x Execution. This is a fantastic post on innovation from Vijay Govindarajan , co-author of the new book, The Other Side of Innovation: Solving the Execution Challenge. Companies tend to focus far more attention on improving the front end of the innovation process, the creativity. Its excellent.

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The Hourglass Blog

DECEMBER 2, 2010

The World Database of Innovation--CLOSED! I first stumbled across The World Database of Innovation in this HBR blog post from a few months ago. As well as over 200 in-depth case studies, it compiles the ideas of 4,500 or so innovation experts and consultancies. Five thousand two hundred and eight tools for innovation!

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The Hourglass Blog

JULY 17, 2010

Principles of Innovation. The fourth meeting of the WSAE Innovation Task Force was held on July 16, 2010. For those of you new to this conversation, Im heading up an effort for my state society to define an evidence-based model of innovation for the association community. Im also blogging about it here.

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The Hourglass Blog

NOVEMBER 26, 2010

Next Steps for Association Innovation. This is an exciting time for the WSAE Innovation Task Force. First of all, our white paper on association innovation is nearly finished. Second, we are currently working on a new online community dedicated to innovation for associations. skip to main | skip to sidebar.

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Association 141+

SEPTEMBER 20, 2011

Tuesday, September 20, 2011. Innovation Right Before Your Eyes. I think innovation is often a very similar situation. Rarely does innovation mean creating something brand new that has never been done before. They had reduced student membership so it was free, and communicated this change to the chapter advisors.

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The Hourglass Blog

NOVEMBER 20, 2010

The Bedrock of Innovation. Failure of course is always a possibility with any attempt at innovation. Indeed the bedrock of innovation is failure. The perceieved price of failure in these environments is too high to attract the necessary champions for innovation. Labels: Innovation. Communication. Innovation.

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The Hourglass Blog

AUGUST 10, 2010

The Role of Trust in Innovation. If you didnt see it, Maddie Grant asked me to do a guest post on her SocialFish blog last week, and I shamelessly used it as an opportunity to promote the innovation project Im spearheading for the Wisconsin Society of Association Executives. Labels: Innovation. skip to main | skip to sidebar.

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The Hourglass Blog

AUGUST 16, 2010

The Unsung Heroes of Innovation. Heres an interesting post on innovation from the Harvard Business Review. In it, Columbia Business School Professor Rita McGrath shares her insights on what makes innovation work in many of the companies shes observed. Monday, August 16, 2010.

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Eric Lanke

SEPTEMBER 26, 2011

Leadership. Innovation. Monday, September 26, 2011. Labels: Leadership. 6 comments: Jeffrey Cufaude September 26, 2011 8:39 AM It's a great question Eric. Reply Delete Michael Long September 26, 2011 2:55 PM Good question Eric. Reply Delete Eric Lanke September 26, 2011 7:45 PM Good comments all.

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The Hourglass Blog

AUGUST 28, 2010

Association Advantages for Innovation. Heres part three of the "innovation for associations" white paper Im helping to write while chairing the Innovation Task Force for the Wisconsin Society of Association Executives. Saturday, August 28, 2010. These advantages include: 1.

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Association Subculture

JULY 29, 2011

Friday, July 29, 2011. Originally posted on SmartBlog on Leadership ). Maybe you pictured a person who is a fearless, visionary, innovatively independent thinker. What does that mean for leadership in our associations and not-for-profit corporations? What Does the Perfect Association Leader Look Like? Start simply.

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