Author
Jeff De Cagna, FRSA, FASAE
Jeff De Cagna, FASAE, is chief strategist and founder of Principled Innovation LLC, in Reston, Virginia. Email: jeff@principledinnovation.com.
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Organizational StrategyArticleOver 2 years old
The Board’s Duty of Foresight in The Age of Polycrisis
In an article in the 2024 Associations Now Board Brief, I wrote: “Less than a year before the…
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Organizational StrategyArticleOver 2 years old
What Association Boards and CEOs Must Understand in the Age of Polycrisis
For most of this decade’s first three years, humanity’s central focus was on the struggle to survive and…
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GovernanceArticleOver 2 years old
Build a Fit-for-Purpose Board in The Turbulent Twenties
As of June 2022, we are roughly 25 percent through The Turbulent Twenties. To say this decade is…
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Organizational StrategyArticleOver 5 years old
A Foresight Toolkit for Association Boards
As association boards come to embrace the duty of foresight and begin to develop a consistent practice of…
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GovernanceArticleOver 5 years old
Developing a Stewardship Statement
How creating a stewardship statement can help your association's board realize the value of their work.
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GovernanceArticleOver 5 years old
The Board’s Duty of Foresight
The beginning of 2016 is the right time for association boards to make a fundamental choice. On the…
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Organizational StrategyArticleOver 5 years old
BlackBerry Breakdown: How a Smartphone Giant Lost Its Way
The company that led the smartphone revolution and sparked our collective mobile addiction is now a shadow of…
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MembershipArticleOver 5 years old
Overcoming the Association Value Gap: Part II
Building sustainable business models depends on association leaders adopting a 21st-century sensibility as they imagine and co-create new…
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MembershipArticleOver 5 years old
Overcoming The Association Value Gap: Part I
Even in 2013, association business models based on membership rely heavily on dues revenue. Leaders need to understand…
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GovernanceArticleOver 5 years old
Five “Next Practices” for Board Business Model Stewardship
How can boards break free of old ways of thinking and help create new business models that will…
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GovernanceArticleOver 5 years old
Trapped in The Past: Five Challenges of Conventional Thinking
Challenge your board to break free of conventional thinking by addressing five ways it is killing your association’s…
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Organizational StrategyArticleOver 5 years old
Jeff De Cagna: 6 Radical Shifts For Associations
Jeff De Cagna, FRSA, FASAE, chief strategist and founder of Principled Innovation, offers six radical shifts associations can…
