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What Membership Organizations Can Learn From Magazines

GrowthZone

There’s no downside for your events staff to send just one more email—except that your organization loses valuable attention. How do we create a new narrative for our organizations? Magazines contain some clues. To remedy your attention problem, get organized around your audience instead of your internal needs.

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Is your Association a Learning Organization?

WBT Systems

Is your association a learning organization? A learning organization becomes more like a community that members can feel a commitment to. Is your Association a Learning Organization. So, how can associations adopt a learning culture and strategic plan that will enable them to become learning organizations?

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Association Brain Food: 2.2.24

Reid All About it

Print magazines. m3Magazines shares advice on transforming your magazine into a valuable asset members will love. They start with the benefits of a well-crafted print magazine, just in case you have to make a case to your leadership team. I’m happy to feature it as long as it’s not too product-centric. More info/register.

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Innovation Requires Diversity

Idea Architects

It's one of the many core elements of innovation, one Franz Johansson nicely described in his book The Medici Effect. He suggests innovation results from stepping into The Intersection, a place were ideas from different fields and cultures meet and collide, ultimately igniting an explosion of extraordinary discoveries.

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3 Key Steps to Go from Innovation to Implementation

Association Adviser

Innovation has been a common buzzword for the past few years – and not just in the association world. There’s been a lot of talk about how organizations can create a culture that drives innovation, how great leaders can spur innovation and how associations need to innovate to survive. Keep asking questions.

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3 Key Steps to Go from Innovation to Implementation

Association Adviser

Innovation has been a common buzzword for the past few years – and not just in the association world. There’s been a lot of talk about how organizations can create a culture that drives innovation, how great leaders can spur innovation and how associations need to innovate to survive. Keep asking questions.

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Why We Are Creating an Innovation Center

Association Success

Indeed, TIME magazine mused in 1951 that “By the 21st Century our people doubtless will be squint-eyed, hunchbacked and fond of the dark” – a vision which has happily not (yet) been substantiated. If you want to apply Lean to your organization, you need to do it exploratively and iteratively, just as Lean would demand.