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LearningArticleOver 5 years old
Debate Done Right: Boost Your Formal Debate Game
Most people cringe at the word debate, envisioning the personal, divisive attacks of presidential candidates posturing on a…
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Executive LeadershipArticleOver 5 years old
Leader to Leader: Board Inspirations
Who or what originally inspired you to serve on the board you're currently leading?
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Organizational StrategyArticleOver 5 years old
Leader to Leader: Board Fears
As a board leader, what keeps you up at night?
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Executive LeadershipArticleOver 5 years old
Jeffrey Pfeffer: Upside-Down Leadership
Leaders should do the opposite of what they've been told, argues Stanford Professor Jeffrey Pfeffer.
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Career DevelopmentArticleOver 5 years old
Career Coach: Create a Personal Board
Career advice from Carol Vernon, certified executive coach, principal of Communication Matters.
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Executive LeadershipArticleOver 5 years old
How I Got Here: Eric H. Schultz
Eric H. Schultz, the chair of Massachusetts Association of Health Plans in Boston, knows his way around a…
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LearningArticleOver 5 years old
Andy Boynton: Idea Hunters
A new role for boards in an age of innovation, according to Boston College's Dean Andy Boynton.
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AdvocacyArticleOver 5 years old
Association Agenda: Tax Reform Tabled
A fresh election cycle means a long-sought tax overhaul will wait.
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AdvocacyArticleOver 5 years old
Brought to You By: Smartphones
In sometimes surprising ways, associations play direct and indirect roles in bringing the products, services, and activities of…
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Executive LeadershipArticleOver 5 years old
Stepping Up to Volunteer Leadership
Addy M. Kujawa, CAE, executive director of the American Association of Orthopaedic Executives, has faced a challenge common…
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Executive LeadershipArticleOver 5 years old
Books: The Benefits of Doing What You’re Not Supposed To Do
Leadership BS: Fixing Workplaces and Careers One Truth at a Time By Jeffrey Pfeffer Renowned Stanford Professor Jeffrey…
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Career DevelopmentArticleOver 5 years old
How to Create Your Personal Board of Directors
Associations Now: What's a personal board of directors? Vernon: A personal board of directors is a confidential sounding…
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Executive LeadershipArticleOver 5 years old
How I Got Here: Eric H. Schultz
Eric H. Schultz Chair, Massachusetts Association of Health Plans Boston Eric H. Schultz was elected board chair of…
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Executive LeadershipArticleOver 5 years old
Leader to Leader: Motivations and Concerns
Who or what originally inspired you to serve on the board you're currently leading? My inspiration to become…
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AdvocacyArticleOver 5 years old
Election Cycle Means Long-Sought Tax Overhaul Will Wait
It's a new year, but congressional tax writers aren't any closer to overhauling a tax code they say…
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GovernanceArticleOver 5 years old
Chapter Restructuring: A Board’s Most Difficult Job?
Imagine your association as the human body. The board of directors is the brain, making decisions. The staff…
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Organizational StrategyArticleOver 5 years old
A New Role for Boards: Idea Hunters
If volunteer leaders and CEOs want to identify new association opportunities, they must become interested, diverse, exercised, and…
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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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GovernanceArticleOver 5 years old
From Where I Sit: Governance as an Asset
"Congratulations and welcome to the board!" New board members often hear these words with a myriad of emotions…
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LearningArticleOver 5 years old
How Board Debate Can Lead to Good Decisions
Nearly 1,000 attendees clutch their plastic clappers and file enthusiastically into the ballroom for one of the American…
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GovernanceArticleOver 5 years old
The Radical Board Agenda Item: Mindful Meditation
It's board meeting time again. You and your staff have spent inordinate amounts of time, focus, and energy…
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Organizational StrategyArticleOver 5 years old
Association Budgeting: Best Practices and Lessons Learned
Developing an annual budget is a challenge for all organizations and a job in which improvement is continuously…
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MembershipArticleOver 5 years old
Member Surveys and Beyond: What to Do With All That Data
Associations typically produce reports on their members regularly, tallying member counts, calculating revenue, counting how many have renewed…
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LearningArticleOver 5 years old
A Quick-Start Guide to Changing Behavior in Learners
If you could peek inside a learning brain, you'd see multiple areas actively engaged in forging new physical…
