Eric Lanke

AUGUST 6, 2018

It's not always obvious. In fact, sometimes it feels like you're not making any progress at all. But then, something happens that allows you to see what you've accomplished from an outsider's perspective, and suddenly, you realize that you ARE actually making a difference. What am I talking about? Eleven years ago the association work for launched an affiliated charitable foundation to help raise money to support outreach, education, and research initiatives in our industry.

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Smooth The Path

AUGUST 6, 2018

Here is another way to look for gaps in your association’s value proposition. The results of years of member research show that high-performing professionals tend to move through three stages during their career. These career stages showed up for all professionals no matter what industries or professions they are in, no matter how big their organization, and no matter whether their organization is a for-profit or non-profit.

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Association Success

AUGUST 6, 2018

Duct tape and toilet paper rolls can greatly reduce the risk of your problem-solving and development efforts. Previous pieces of mine might have hinted at my commitment to the principles of Design Thinking (if you haven’t got that hint yet, I invite you to have a read ). On top of the flexibility and open-mindedness of this methodology, there’s another reason why an empathetic, iterative process of discovery makes for an excellent problem-solving tool: not all ideas are good ones.

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Associations Now

AUGUST 6, 2018

Workers who are seen as negative to company culture represent an interesting conundrum—they end up costing organizations money and poisoning other workers, but they’re often good at getting themselves promoted. You may put a lot of work into finding employees who are team players and collaborative dynamos, but it’s can be difficult to avoid a wet blanket sometimes.

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Associations Now

AUGUST 6, 2018

The introduction of two bills last week shows that lawmakers are increasingly aware of the need to fix a provision in the new tax law that requires tax-exempt organizations to pay taxes on employee parking and transportation benefits. Last week, Senators Ted Cruz (R-TX) and James Lankford (R-OK) introduced separate bills that would repeal a provision in the new tax law requiring associations, charities, churches, and other tax-exempt organizations to pay unrelated business income tax (UBIT) on e

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Associations Now

AUGUST 6, 2018

The U.S. Golf Association, which has a surprisingly long history with esports, is teaming with the game World Golf Tour to offer a new tournament that will culminate in a real-life head-to-head competition next month. The U.S. Golf Association (USGA) has long been known for its real-world tournaments, but one thing you might not have known is that it’s one of the earliest organizational supporters of esports.

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Associations Now

AUGUST 6, 2018

The Defense Department is drawing a lot of buzz in the IT space at the moment for seemingly committing much of its massive infrastructure to a single cloud provider, arguing it’d be too complex to share the burden. But does that strategy make sense for smaller shops, like associations? The Department of Defense (DoD) doesn’t run its cloud like anyone else, and it just highlighted that with a new RFP.

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