These among leadership tips (from an excellent past national association president) ...1. Be prepared. There's no excuse for anyone becoming president and saying "I'm not really sure what I'm supposed to be doing". Read everything. It's the small print in the filed reports ...
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I’m pulling together my best of 2008 blog awards, but as a distraction, I decided to head back to this post from January 1, 2008 to see how my ten association predictions for 2008 fared.
Prediction #1: There will ...
It's interesting to observe how print media has found
ways to increase advertising space in each issue.
The
Chicago Tribune, recently overhauled by its new owner, has divided Section 1 (national and international news) into four sections of consecutively numbered pages, each identified as "Section 1."...
A long delay, late night flight home, then a wicked ice storm that knocked out our Internet until yesterday are my excuses for not getting around to posting more about the IAEE show in Miami last week. But now I’ve slept and the Interweb tubes once again are cleared through ...
Saw this on the MiForum listserv this morning and got a good howl out of it: The fun, weird, funny things asked for in the Foo Fighters rider, brought to you by the Smoking Gun. Some rough language, but man is it funny!
Don’t you wish all businesses could have a ...
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I’ve been traveling for 12 years.
Regularly bee-bopping across the country to speak at leadership conferences.
But never more than a three-hour time zone difference.
Last week I quickly flipped my body clock the five hours difference to Hawaii Time.
I stayed up late.
Often laughing about going to bed after the time I would ...
I have wanted to share what I have been going through for the past weeks but time and my commitment to my family got the better of me. For those of you who didn’t know - which I suspect is many - my Mom passed away last Sunday night. Her ...
Something about all the lying, fake alliances and mean things the players all say about each other makes the television reality show "
Survivor" more stressful than entertaining to me. But I do often watch the finale, including tonight as a high school Physics teacher from Maine ...
Associations should not be so eager to emulate corporate behavior (don't we know that already?) In their quest to increase profits, many companies maintain low-paid, subjugated workforces, and may "incent" them by forcing them to compete against each other for monetary rewards.
They may also
tamper with ...
Time to come home.
I spent the last week in Hawaii doing some professional development.
Heard from top speakers in their area.
Including Robert Bradford - THE strategic planner for mid-sized companies.
And Kirstin Carey - sales and marketing expert for creative entreprenuers who want to grow their businesses.
Had several adventures.
From seeing one of the prettiest beaches in the ...