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How to Reset Your Board Diversity Efforts

Associations Now

As board expert Julie Daum told the Los Angeles Times last month: “Are we going to say, ‘I’m blond. Expertise matters, of course. One reason for that may be that organizations’ efforts to diversify their boards have been more reactive than intentional, and more interested in optics than truly diverse leadership.

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Strategic Adaptation

World Class Boards

An oft-cited quote from success expert Brian Tracy states: “When an airplane leaves Chicago for Los Angeles, it is off course 99% of the time. A pilot makes continual course courrections, a little to the north, a little to the south. For leaders, like pilots, most of the flight time the plane is off course.

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Strategic Adaptation

World Class Boards

An oft-cited quote from success expert Brian Tracy states: “When an airplane leaves Chicago for Los Angeles, it is off course 99% of the time. A pilot makes continual course courrections, a little to the north, a little to the south. For leaders, like pilots, most of the flight time the plane is off course.

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Association Brain Food Weekly: 6.21.19

Reid All About it

Join us online for the livestream of select sessions, thought leader interviews, and so much more, all live from Los Angeles. We will be streaming sessions from 2 of our 5 studios, along with our Wednesday and Thursday Main Stage sessions, and of course, our live interviews with numerous industry thought leaders and speakers.

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On the Road for Flavor Creation

Association Navigator

This was not a course for flavorists, the artists that create flavors. This was a course for people that wanted to learn more about what flavorists do. Both men are running successful businesses, but they devoted an enormous amount of time developing this course, which they delivered for the third time this week in California.

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Robot Used in Dallas Police Shooting Raises Ethical Quandary, Groups Say

Associations Now

The question, of course, is whether such devices will always be used as carefully as they were during the Dallas incident—something that American Civil Liberties Union Senior Policy Analyst Jay Stanley has already raised as a potential concern. Questions of Ethics. When things get easier to do, they tend to be done too much.

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NBA Players Look to Bench Amid Donald Sterling Crisis

Associations Now

Award Revoked The NAACP had to reverse course over the weekend after it was revealed the association’s Los Angeles chapter had planned to give the Clippers’ owner a lifetime-achievement award next month. “If you’re silent about this, then you’re accepting this,” she said.