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Digital Transformation: Where Do I Start?

Spark Consulting

Secure leadership support and a funding commitment. Review your legacy systems and processes (make sure you’ve got the “digitizing” part covered, for Ross/Mocker fans). Identify strategic areas where digital tech could make a difference. The post Digital Transformation: Where Do I Start?

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Lessons in leadership from 2014

Aaron Wolowiec

Athitakis has written on nonprofits, the arts and leadership for a variety of publications. And I do worry, as I wrote back in May, that social-media herd mentality might trickle down into leadership , leading to groupthink. Listening is an underrated leadership skill. 22 on Associations Now.

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Thanks For Playing: Book Review: The Back of the Napkin

Thanks For Playing

Book Review: The Back of the Napkin. Im always the one urging colleagues to use fewer words and more pictures to share information with senior leadership. Labels: book review , Dan Roam , Visual Thinking. Why Are We Still Doing Annual Performance Reviews? Book Review: The Back of the Napkin. Thanks For Playing.

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Association Brain Food Weekly: 6.18.21

Reid All About it

WBT Systems offers the wisdom of Stoic philosophers like Marcus Aurelius and Seneca on topics pertaining to life inside and outside of associations, such as lifelong learning, change management, leadership, making the best of crappy situations and living in the now. Board Leadership ( Chatting with Agnes & Cecilia). every Monday.

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Association Brain Food: 1.26.24

Reid All About it

Billhighway discusses the causes of leadership succession issues and offers strategies for preventing volunteer burnout , a big problem for chapters. Leadership development for young members. TopClass LMS has a solution for empty volunteer pipelines: leadership development cohort programs. More info/register. 1 CAE credit.

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Thought Leaders Blaze Trails of Discovery and Engagement

.orgSource

That’s the beauty of thought leadership. Thought leadership is an old idea that has been made new again. The term was coined in 1994 by Joel Kurtzman , who was the founding editor-in-chief of Strategy+Business magazine and editor of the Harvard Business Review. My YouTube examples don’t quite fit this lofty definition.

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How Leaders Can Help Others Find Their Path

Associations Now

That issue was top-of-mind for speakers at the recent MIT Sloan Management Review symposium , who pointed out that employees—excepting conventional “high performers”—generally don’t know where their growth paths are in an organization. It is important to define career development beyond vertical promotion into leadership positions.