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Learning from Millennials

Higher Logic

Ever since the Millennials started coming into the workforce about 10 years ago, we’ve been hearing a lot of complaints about them. For the Millennials, that has come in the form of complaints about them being entitled – showing up at work and immediately wanting a promotion. Quick, market to the Millennials!

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How the Pope Is Connecting with Younger Generations on Social Media: Pope Emojis

Beth Kanter

As you probably know, the Pope is visiting the United States this week in Washington, DC; Philadelphia; and New York City. Unless the church engages social media, he said, “we will wind up talking to ourselves.”. DoSomething.Org launched a campaign to ask Apple to diversify its emoji.

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Solutions for Your Membership Conundrum

Association Adviser

These tactics eclipsed the number of associations that are cultivating a social media presence during their live events (19 percent), offering awards for young professionals (16 percent) or offering separate educational tracks for young professionals (10 percent). “We Tactics for engaging millennials.

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Association Subculture: WIFM? Bah. WIFU!

Association Subculture

is the bane of association leadership. But for me, WIFM belongs squarely in the member benefits and marketing department, not in our volunteer leadership structures or the board room. I refuse to sell Millennials short and insist that they can’t be attracted to a profession, issue or cause through any other method than WIFM.

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The Hourglass Blog: What Wikileaks Should Teach Association.

The Hourglass Blog

In reflecting on what it means when a professional, technically sophisticated, and well-protected government such as the United States suffers an intelligence breach of this magnitude, the author specualtes on what that might mean for the rest of us. Labels: Communication , Leadership , Social Media. Leadership.

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The Hourglass Blog: Leaders Have a Different Job

The Hourglass Blog

The HBR blog is running a series on leadership lessons from the military. One of the latest posts is a mini interview with Ken Hicks, the CEO of Foot Locker and a graduate of the United States Military Academy who spent six years in the army just after the Vietnam War. Labels: Leadership. Developing Millennial Leaders.

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The Hourglass Blog: Culture Change is Hard Work

The Hourglass Blog

The principal aim of medical residency in the United States is to prepare recent medical school graduates to practice medicine independently. Every doctor didn’t react that way but, to my way of thinking, a surprising number of them—especially those in senior leadership positions—did. Leadership.