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How Successful Change Works

Associations Now

A 2023 report from the Boston Consulting Group notes that aversion to change increases if people feel like they don’t have agency in the changes being made. The more preparation we can do for supervisors, the better off the organization is going to be.

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Winning Lessons from the World of Sports

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In Boston sports, these are “the good old days.” In honor of Boston sports, here’s what our four teams can teach associations: From the Red Sox: “Know your role.” When a ball is hit up the middle in baseball, you never see the shortstop and second basemen collide as they both go for it. Are you considering merging with a group?

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Winning Lessons from the World of Sports

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In Boston sports, these are “the good old days.” In honor of Boston sports, here’s what our four teams can teach associations: From the Red Sox: “Know your role.” This kind of role definition is critical in any organization—know who is doing what. Are you considering merging with a group?

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Nonprofit: Just a Tax Status

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If there’s one thing I’d like to change about working with nonprofits of all kinds, it’s the belief that nonprofits are somehow the “minor leagues” of organizations—that it’s ok for them to have deficits in leadership, operations or strategy that you wouldn’t see in a for profit corporation. That’s a load of hooey.

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Report: Nonprofit Employees Happy, But There’s Always Room for Improvement

Associations Now

A new report from the fundraising platform Classy finds that nonprofit employee satisfaction rates top 80 percent, but closer alignment between employees and leadership could make things even better. But there was some misalignment when it come to what nonprofit employees and organizations are concerned about.

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Five Things I Learned About Leadership In 2013

Associations Now

This was the first full year I wrote (pretty much) weekly on leadership for AssociationsNow.com. I talked to a lot of association CEOs, looked at a lot of studies, and absorbed a lot of earnest metaphors about what leadership is like. (It’s But all helped those organizations rethink their missions in meaningful ways.

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The future of fundraising is responsive

Association Success

As organizations and individuals continue to assess new information daily from the Centers for Disease Control, the World Health Organization, and others on the growing COVID-19 pandemic, the need for successful fundraising efforts has become even more critical. Why are most fundraising plans designed to fail?

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