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Lunchtime Links: Throw Away Your Best-Practices Handbook

Associations Now

How following industry best practices could hinder innovation. Holtzclaw, CEO of Laddering Works, writes for Inc.com that if you’re following best practices, you could lose an innovative touch and diverge from what your members actually need—or you could remain average. Also: Have a long to-do list?

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Association Brain Food Weekly: 11.10.17

Reid All About it

Learn from each other and exchange stories of project successes across all departments – marketing, membership, education and technology. Without a shared vision of success and deeper understanding of how the pieces fit together, organizations can struggle with even the most basic of IT projects—costing time, money, and effort.

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Why Self-Interested Volunteers are the Best for Nonprofits

Beth Kanter

Beyond the First Click examines innovative volunteer engagement work by 35 organisations empowering people to scale change and win by learning and doing more. Beyond the First Click is a project of Capulet, Change.org and the Mobilisation Lab at Greenpeace. About the Authors.

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Facilitation Friday #9: Build Capacity to Accomplish More

Idea Architects

custom-designing keynotes, workshops, and leadership conferences that promote innovation, learning, and community. A great resource for this work is Norman Kerth's Project Retrospectives: A Handbook for Team Reviews. Jeffrey Cufaude, Idea Architects. Jeffrey Cufaude is an architect of ideas. Friday, March 02, 2012.

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Jeffrey Cufaude, Idea Architects: Seen Elsewhere: Building Creative.

Idea Architects

custom-designing keynotes, workshops, and leadership conferences that promote innovation, learning, and community. Books like The Medici Effect , by Frans Johannson, and Where Good Ideas Come From , by Steven Johnson, confirm what weve long known: innovation in one field often occurs when an idea from another is associated into a new context.