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Kristin Clarke, CAE
Kristin Clarke, CAE, is president of Clarke Association Content and is the books columnist for Associations Now.
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Organizational StrategyArticleOver 5 years old
Books: Embrace Upstream Thinking
In Dan Heath's latest book, he urges leaders to set aside traditional efforts toward resolution in favor of…
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OperationsArticleOver 5 years old
A Formula for Flexible Staffing
With COVID-19 disrupting every function of every association, organizations are relying on the skills, experience, and ideas of…
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Organizational StrategyArticleOver 5 years old
Books: Experimentation Works; Too Important to Fail; The Ministry of Common Sense
Harvard Business School Professor Stefan Thomke urges organizations to become far more strategic, organized, and assertive about experimentation in…
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LearningArticleOver 5 years old
Books: Effective Experimentation
Discipline and process win, according to Stefan Thomke’s Experimentation Works.
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LearningArticleOver 5 years old
Books: The Disruption Mindset; Late Bloomers; Talking to Strangers
In The Disruption Mindset: Why Some Organizations Transform While Others Fail, digital transformation leader Charlene Li tackles the tribulations of…
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Executive LeadershipArticleOver 5 years old
Books: The Shield of Silence; Helping People Change; You’re It
The Women’s Bar Association of Massachusetts did not know its 2018 project to analyze sexual harassment and bullying in…
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Organizational StrategyArticleOver 5 years old
Books: Transformation Tactics
In the The Disruption Mindset, Charlene Li makes a case for less structure and more disruption.
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LearningArticleOver 5 years old
Books: Raising the Alarm
Acknowledging and addressing rampant workplace harassment in The Shield of Silence.
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Organizational StrategyArticleOver 5 years old
Books: World Changers
An inclusive view of global problem-solving from Melinda Gates.
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Organizational StrategyArticleOver 5 years old
Books: Dream Teams; the Sponsor Effect; and Turning the Flywheel
Pirate partnerships, rap contests, World of Warcraft attacks: Contently cofounder Shane Snow taps into the unorthodox in his exploration…
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Executive LeadershipArticleOver 5 years old
Books: Teamwork Tales
What makes for high-performing teams, according to Contently founder Shane Snow.
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Conscious InclusionArticleOver 5 years old
Books: Let Them See You; This Is Marketing; Becoming Essential
Porter Braswell, one of Fast Company’s 100 Most Creative People in Business, is clearly frustrated as he urges more aggressive…
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Conscious InclusionArticleOver 5 years old
Books: Be You
Bring your authentic self to work, Porter Braswell argues in Let Them See You.
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Executive LeadershipArticleOver 5 years old
Books: The Fearless Organization; The Mind of the Leader; Leadership in Turbulent Times
In the Fearless Organization: Creating Psychological Safety in the Workplace for Learning, Innovation, and Growth, Harvard leadership professor Amy Edmondson presents…
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LearningArticleOver 5 years old
Books: No Fear
In The Fearless Organization, Harvard professor Amy Edmondson makes the case for creating psychologically safe workplaces.
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Career DevelopmentArticleOver 5 years old
Books: Can You Hear Me?; How Women Rise; Gigged
Author Nick Morgan is no fan of webinars, calling them “a form of torture” and a “truly awful way…
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LearningArticleOver 5 years old
Books: Virtual Connections
In Can You Hear Me? How to Connect With People, CNN commentator Nick Morgan explains how to build…
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Organizational StrategyArticleOver 5 years old
Books: Unsafe Thinking; Leap; Leading Matters
As a reader of Unsafe Thinking: How to Be Nimble & Bold When You Need It Most, you’ll be in…
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Organizational StrategyArticleOver 5 years old
Books: Be Bold
Break free from the status quo, with the help of Jonah Sachs’ Unsafe Thinking.
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Organizational StrategyArticleOver 5 years old
Books: Go Long; Thinking in Bets; Conscious
Despite its mere 140 pages, Go Long: Why Long-Term Thinking Is Your Best Short-Term Strategy is a call to action to…
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Organizational StrategyArticleOver 5 years old
Books: Take the Long View
The perils of bowing to short-term pressures, according to the book Go Long.
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Conscious InclusionArticleOver 5 years old
Books: Prediction Machines; Powered by Storytelling; Gender Ambiguity in the Workplace
If you’re among the many leaders unclear whether artificial intelligence will make your job easier or your association stronger,…
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Organizational StrategyArticleOver 5 years old
Books: AI Strategy
In their book Prediction Machines: The Simple Economics of Artificial Intelligence, authors Ajay Agrawal, Joshua Gans, and Avi…
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Executive LeadershipArticleOver 5 years old
Books: Engine of Impact, Psyched Up, Braving the Wilderness
Stanford University lecturers William Meehan III and Kim Starkey Jonker don’t take long to chide nonprofits about their opacity,…
