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Truth and Authenticity in the Digital Age

Mar 5, 2010 5:47am

That's the title of the session that Maddie Grant and I will be delivering at the upcoming ASAE & The Center Great Ideas Conference, at the Broadmoor in Colorado Springs. I am a big fan of the Great Ideas Conference,......

The Beyond Relevance Conversation

Mar 1, 2010 5:42am

I thought last week's webinar on beyond relevance was tremendous fun. I believe we had close to 100 sites participating. The Chat and Twitter stream were quite active, and I was happy with the conversation going on and the questions......

Best Practices are Flawed Because We Are Human

Feb 23, 2010 5:30am

I love the association community, but I don't like our obsession with "best practices." Having said that, I have to admit that I get some benefit from the obsession. Volunteer Boards I think get a lot of comfort out of......

Beyond Relevance Webinar

Feb 22, 2010 7:11am

In September, I wrote a blog post titled "Relevance Is Not Enough." Building off the writing of Jeff De Cagna and Maddie Grant, I made the argument that being relevant to members will not drive growth. It was one of......

The Truth About Change

Feb 17, 2010 5:53am

My last two posts about truth have generated some of the best comments this blog has ever seen. I quoted Joe Gerstandt's comment in the second post, and that one generated an equally awesome comment from Lindy Dreyer. Her question......

Managing Generations and Conflict in the Workplace

Feb 10, 2010 6:30am

I was in Florida last week testing out a pilot training program on managing generations and conflict in the workplace. It was the first time I really combined these two topics into a training session. It's a lot of material......

Paying the Price for Truth

Feb 3, 2010 5:51am

Last week I suggested that if you want a culture of truth in your organization, perhaps that needs to start at the top. Several of the comments chimed in with a "you're darn right it does." The top controls resources,......

A Culture of Truth Starts at the Top (?)

Jan 27, 2010 5:57am

I clearly have some issues with hierarchy, and since I'm all about systems, I often find myself pointing out ways that people who are NOT in official positions of power can work to make things happen, change things, etc. In......

Leading Broken Organizations

Jan 20, 2010 5:57am

Bruce Butterfield has created an interesting dialogue over on the ASAE listserve when he compared the association community to the struggling/dying industry of newspapers. Maddie posted about it, as did Peggy. Glen Tecker did a pushback post, arguing that we......

Governance Month: "I don't want to be the one who screwed things up"

Jan 18, 2010 5:54am

I have heard this phrase a lot in the context of association governance (which is this month's theme on the Acronym blog, by the way). Jeffrey Cufaude mentioned it in a blog comment recently as one reason why association governance......