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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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

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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The Hourglass Blog

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. His larger point seems to be that there is no magic pill for innovation.

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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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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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Associations Now

FEBRUARY 23, 2017

From 2012 to 2016, these efforts have resulted in a 21 percent uptick in membership, along with the accompanying membership dues. Plus, the report posits that an organization’s strong sense of purpose can also attract and retain employees, including millennials. Putting Purpose into Practice.

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Jamie Notter

JANUARY 17, 2012

Posted January 17, 2012. I am a conflict resolution professional, and I spend a LOT of my time helping people to understand what conflict is and how to resolve it. You manage it when the issues are defined at the very beginning, you manage it when you decide how to collect data. Want Innovation? Consulting. Generations.

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SCD Group

SEPTEMBER 24, 2012

Monday, September 24, 2012. What is Innovation? By Jamie Notter via Get Me Jamie Notter blog Innovation is change that unlocks new value. And you can only access that value through innovation—by changing what you’re doing and how you’re doing it in ways that are deep enough to access this locked-away value.

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The Hourglass Blog

MARCH 27, 2011

In my last post , I talked about something I called 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. And where should I find inspiration for how to resolve this conundrum?

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The Hourglass Blog

MARCH 12, 2011

Boomers, Xers and Millennials all have a role to play in creating new systems of leadership, and each brings a unique perspective that, when integrated, can make the system stronger and more sustainable that any system based on a single generations ideals. Developing Millennial Leaders. Innovation. Millennials.

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Beth Kanter

MAY 23, 2017

I delivered a keynote for Social Good Brasil in 2012 and for a conference on volunteering hosted by Fundação Telefônica in 2014. I gave the example of charity:water that tells the story about how clean drinking water can change people’s lives in development country. .” Ground your innovation in one (or more!)

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The Hourglass Blog

APRIL 26, 2011

Acting with a knowledge of what your members need and want is important to innovation. Labels: Association Management , Innovation. Developing Millennial Leaders. Innovation. Millennials. Principled Innovation. ► 2012. (1). Learning Innovation from the Mayo Clinic. Image source.

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The Hourglass Blog

OCTOBER 27, 2010

From that we developed a command-and-control mentality of how to run an organization. I think todays great leaders will know how to empower people, all of us, to step up and lead. link] "baby-boom-millennial-leadership"? Labels: Developing Millennial Leaders , Leadership , Pretending Gen X Doesnt Exist. Lost once again.

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The Hourglass Blog

MAY 1, 2011

My first thing I remember being taught how to do at my first association job was filling out the form the accounting department needed in order to cash the checks coming in for exhibit space. Developing Millennial Leaders. Innovation. Millennials. Principled Innovation. ► 2012. (1). Communication.

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The Hourglass Blog

AUGUST 22, 2010

Like a lot of articles about generations in the workplace, this one calls X out as being particularly motivated--to a degree not seen in Boomers or Millennials--by a quest for "work/life balance." Theres a reason why work/life balance is a particular concern of Xers and not Boomers or Millennials. When I read that it hit me.

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The Hourglass Blog

FEBRUARY 5, 2011

.” So “the silent, sullen boy at the mall’s game store may be next in line for an underemployed, lonely adulthood if we don’t teach him how to maintain effective social contacts with others.” Labels: Millennial Perspectives , Social Media. Developing Millennial Leaders. Innovation.

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The Hourglass Blog

NOVEMBER 8, 2010

You probably know more about what to do and how to do than she does. Developing Millennial Leaders. Innovation. Millennials. Principled Innovation. ► 2012. (1). Next Steps for Association Innovation. The Bedrock of Innovation. Innovation = Creativity x Execution. Communication.

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Associations Now

JUNE 25, 2014

and Jeff De Cagna, FASAE, chief strategist and founder of Principled Innovation. More on AIGA and AAM Learn more about how AIGA and AAM overhauled their membership structures: •[Both AIGA and AAM] “ Two Associations Go With Tiered Memberships ,” September 19, 2012. •[AAM] ” November 20, 2013. •[AAM]

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The Hourglass Blog

MARCH 2, 2011

Developing Millennial Leaders. Innovation. Millennials. Principled Innovation. ► 2012. (1). The Catch-22 of Innovation. How to Tell if You Have a Bad Board. Communication. Encore Careers. For-Profit vs. Non-Profit. Generation Basics. Generation Jones. Generational Change in Sports. Governance.

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The Hourglass Blog

MARCH 17, 2011

Developing Millennial Leaders. Innovation. Millennials. Principled Innovation. ► 2012. (1). The Catch-22 of Innovation. How to Tell if You Have a Bad Board. Communication. Encore Careers. For-Profit vs. Non-Profit. Generation Basics. Generation Jones. Generational Change in Sports. Governance.

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The Hourglass Blog

APRIL 6, 2011

It succinctly states one of the fundamental challenges that medical residents face in learning how to be specialists—the long duty hours they are forced to work without sleep. Who are they to tell me how to train my residents? I learned how to be a specialist this way, and by god, so will they! Innovation.

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Association Adviser

MARCH 19, 2013

If you look back at our most popular reader polls of the past three years it’s interesting to see how your peers’ concerns have shifted from strategy (2010) to communication and innovation (2011) to tools and technology (2012). “Associations are operating more like corporations. Charles Popper, Naylor.

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Association Subculture

SEPTEMBER 24, 2009

About a thousand similar statements are regularly promulgated to describe Gen Y/Millennials. Why are we developing policy to combat employees downloading and utilizing new communication tools on the job - [yes on the job, of COURSE on the job - how else can they learn how to translate personal skill into direct business application] ?

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AvidXchange: Association Management

MAY 16, 2017

In his tenure, StrikeIron averaged 68% CAGR and significant product innovation. How do you see regulation, data and technology (in the commercial real estate industry) intersecting? Consumerism: Millennials are beginning to overtake Baby Boomers and are becoming substantial real estate consumers. It isn’t all bad news though.

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