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OCTOBER 31, 2014

This summer I discovered a book about innovation strategy for corporate product launches and I can’t stop thinking about applying these concepts to associations. The book is The Wide Lens , by Ron Adner. I saw this book on a friend’s home office desk this summer in Connecticut.

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Innovation Connecticut Leadership Price 100

Associations Now

MAY 22, 2017

When kids are deciding to learn an instrument, the accordion is probably not their first choice—creating an industry challenge the Connecticut Accordion Association is trying to overcome. One expert instructs associations to get these individuals to tell their stories, instead of simply pushing out their own.

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Strategy Connecticut millennials Industry 85

Associations Now

SEPTEMBER 6, 2013

As students throughout the country dive back into the books, several school-related associations are hard at work promoting health and safety initiatives. A few examples: Flu Fight. After Newtown.

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Connecticut Georgia Sample Guidelines 40

ChatterBachs

DECEMBER 26, 2012

I would like permission to reprint this in the Connecticut Society of Association Executives newsletter minus the Thanksgiving lead in. It is at times like these when we quietly lead by example, because sometimes our actions speak much louder than our words. Thanks, Lorna. I’m honored at this request.

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Connecticut Team Examples Newsletter 28

Associations Now

NOVEMBER 4, 2013

There have been numerous examples of this in the past five years. Think of former Connecticut senator Chris Dodd, now head of the Motion Picture Association of America ; general Wesley Clark, co-chair of Growth Energy , an ethanol industry trade group; or former South Carolina senator Jim DeMint, now head of the Heritage Foundation.

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JUNE 28, 2020

Connecticut – 3.5 Great example of a community working together to provide a great resource! Here’s Some Help Making that Call (source: MeetingsNet) March 10, 2020 – Events on the books in the next month face the question of whether to cancel or proceed with the likelihood of reduced attendance. Illinois – 12.7 New Jersey – 8.9

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APRIL 15, 2020

Connecticut – 3.5 Great example of a community working together to provide a great resource! Here’s Some Help Making that Call (source: MeetingsNet) March 10, 2020 – Events on the books in the next month face the question of whether to cancel or proceed with the likelihood of reduced attendance. Illinois – 12.7 New Jersey – 8.9

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