“Change before you have to.” — Jack Welch In a world defined by acceleration, the length of executive tenures is shrinking. Many...

“You cannot discover new oceans unless you have the courage to lose sight of the shore.” André Gide The Executive Director (ED) (CSO) has...

Word Count 645 – 5 Minute Read “Leadership is not about being in charge. It is about taking care of those in your charge.” Simon Sinek...

“The art of progress is to preserve order amid change and to preserve change amid order.” Alfred North Whitehead Legacy associations are...

“If you don’t like change, you’re going to like irrelevance even less.” General Eric Shinseki Membership decline doesn’t usually arrive...

“The question is not whether intelligent machines can have any ethics, but whether humans can.” Alan Turing Introduction AI is no longer...

“Change before you have to.” — Jack Welch In a world defined by acceleration, the length of executive tenures is shrinking. Many...

“You cannot discover new oceans unless you have the courage to lose sight of the shore.” André Gide The Executive Director (ED) (CSO) has...

“Leadership is not about being in charge. It is about taking care of those in your charge.” Simon Sinek Associations are facing a cascade...

"Strategic thinking is not about being right; it's about being effective  in an unknowable future." — Julia Sloan, Author ofLearning to...

The nature of power is changing. In New Power , authors Jeremy Heimans and Henry Timms argue that old power is like a currency—held by...

Rethinking Our Addiction to Urgency and Crisis Culture Have you ever noticed how many times a day you're interrupted by a push...

Introduction: Juneteenth—celebrated each year on June 19—marks the day in 1865 when the last enslaved African Americans in Galveston,...

In today’s BANI world— Brittle , Anxious , Nonlinear , and Incomprehensible —change is relentless, systems fracture unexpectedly, and...

In Abundance , Peter Diamandis and Steven Kotler make a provocative point: many of today’s most persistent challenges stem not from...

Remember Memorial Day 2025 A Time to Reflect, Honor, and Serve On this Memorial Day, we pause to honor and remember the brave men and...

Why do so many associations wait until a crisis hits before making the very changes they’ve known for years they needed to make? It’s a...

In recent years, Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Accessibility (DEIA) efforts have faced a growing wave of opposition. Some federal and...

Creating an effective Board agenda is one of the most powerful ways to cultivate your association’s strategic, foresight-driven culture....

In association leadership, every solution is a small victory—until it becomes the next challenge. Strategic leaders are wired to solve...