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My Top 5 Blog Posts of 2014

Eric Lanke

As we end another year, here''s a look back at the five posts on this blog that received the most page views in 2014. It was originally posted in January 2012, and keeps getting a ton of traffic, including as the page through which the highest number of people enter my site.

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Help Your Members Find the Signal in the Noise

Spark Consulting

Getting to the “Good Stuff”: Evidence-Based Decision Making for Associations (PDF), co-authored with Peter Houstle, Mariner Management, April 2014. Risk: The Missing Link Connection Strategy to Implementation (PDF), co-authored with Jamie Notter, Human Workplaces, and Leslie White, Croydon Consulting, March 2014.

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Do We All Have a Seat at the Table?

Association Success

Instead we should take those same reigns of leadership and use our passion to ignite and increase more passion through inclusion. Including this multitude of voices is a powerful way to strengthen the perspective, and broaden the reach, of your decisions. “We Diversity strengthens your advocacy reach too.

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Better Because You Were There

Velvet Chainsaw

This was shortly after the killings of Trayvon Martin in Sanford, Florida, in 2012, and Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri, in 2014. One of the focus group participants said something that really resonated with me: “Instead of boycotting their destination, my leadership wants to do everything they can to help the healing. “.

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Why We Love Associations: 10 Top Stories From the Associations Now Archives

Associations Now

Associations Now didn’t have a digital news presence until 2012, but we’ve covered enough of the 2010s that we have a lot of association stories to look back at in our archives. The Leadership Elements That Made Nelson Mandela an Icon. Read them again for an end-of-decade reminder of why you love associations. How much is a lot?

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Content Curation Revisited

Spark Consulting

According to the Association Lab survey, the association executives who responded believe that information management, including both volume and quality of information, is their members’ top concern in 2014. In other words, don’t write another article on leadership for your enewsletter.

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How Do You Get to The Executive Director Position? Listen, Question and Learn

Association Adviser

Along the way, he has internalized several lessons about association leadership that he shared with Association Adviser during a recent chat. Read on: Association Adviser: Tell us about your path into association leadership. Brandon Robinson facilitates the 2014 VSAE Board Advance in Keswick, Virginia.