Five reasons why membership is killing association business models: Part III
Membership is perhaps the most sacred tenet in all of association orthodoxy. Indeed, for many organizations, the membership imperative defines the very existence of the association: membership is who...
View ArticleAssociations Unorthodox Shift #2: Crowdsource strategy
Last Tuesday, I began this series of blog posts on the six shifts presented in my new e-book, Associations Unorthodox: Six Really Radical Shifts Toward the Future, created in collaboration with CHIEF....
View ArticleSerious Questions: Are associations dead?
In August, I launched the P. I. Serious Questions newsletter. Each issue of the newsletter presents a serious question on which I offer my thoughts for newsletter subscribers. Today, I am publishing...
View ArticleSix serious ideas for 2013
2013 is the year when association leaders will need to get serious about transformation. So as the year begins in earnest, I want to share six ideas on which I will focus my attention over the next 12...
View ArticleTen “next truths” of governing the 21st century association
In my last post on six serious ideas for 2013, I discussed the concept of “strategic legitimacy,” which is about challenging association boards to do a better job of providing future-focused...
View ArticleHow Technology is Transforming Strategy
This post originally appeared last Wednesday on the ResultsDirect AssociationCentric Blog. Remarkable…simply remarkable. I find it remarkable that it is February 2013, and I am still reading magazine...
View ArticleOvercoming the association value gap: part I
This post originally appeared on the Associations Now Leadership Blog on March 7, 2013. In a recent post, Associations Now blogger Joe Rominiecki shared what both he and I regard as a startling fact:...
View ArticleOvercoming the association value gap: part II
This post originally appeared on the Associations Now Leadership Blog on March 28, 2013. You can read Part I here. In Part I of this series earlier this month, I identified the association value gap as...
View ArticleEmpathy, new value creation and the stakeholders of the future
In early January, I wrote a post on six serious ideas for 2013 that included the concept of SED, which is short for serendipity, empathy and discovery. SED is a term I coined to inspire association...
View ArticleAsking different questions: MMCC 2013 edition
“Is the association model broken?” “What does ‘member’ mean to you?” “Do we need a new membership model?” “Is membership dead?” These are all interesting questions, and I understand why some people are...
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