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Idea Swappin’
This week’s Super Idea Swap at ASAE was great, as usual! We had lots of new faces – and plenty of familiar ones – and sessions with different topics than we often see. I chose…
Read More →Truck Stuck! Now What?
I think we’re all familiar with the story of Truck Stuck by Sallie Wolfe. It’s a charming children’s book in which the kids are the heroes, figuring out a creative solution to get the truck…
Read More →Can I Trust You?
I’ve been thinking about issues related to trust and risk ever since Jamie Notter and Maddie Grant‘s unsession on their forthcoming book, Humanize, at #ASAE11. During the session, Jamie made a really interesting point: trust…
Read More →Are Some More Equal Than Others?
Yep, it’s another post about Joe Gerstandt’s awesome How to Fly Your Freak Flag session as #ASAE11. One of the exercises consisted of Joe reading a variety of statements and asking us to stand up,…
Read More →Dare to Think BIG
During Jeffrey Cufaude‘s ASAE11 Ignite presentation on living a sustainable life, he quoted Mary Catherine Bateson: “we’re living longer but thinking shorter.” And I got thinking about the concept of thinking small. Associations are under…
Read More →Innovation: Small Staff v. Large Staff
In the past 14 years, I’ve held a variety of positions in association management: senior staff in a mid-sized professional academic society, senior staff/acting CEO for a small ed-tech association, consulting, and now mid-level management…
Read More →Blue Mood
You know how some times you get into a pattern where NOTHING seems to be going right? It can happen in any area of your life, of course, but when it happens at work, it…
Read More →Super Swap
I had the opportunity to attend the July Super Swap at ASAE yesterday. I attended two sessions: one on volunteerism, one on technology: fad v trend. The best things I learned/heard include: Volunteerism Different tools…
Read More →#ASAE11 – Tips for First Timers
#ASAE11kicks off in just over a month (damn! already? where is the summer going…?), and I saw a recent tweet asking for tips for first-timers, so I thought I’d share some of mine: Follow the…
Read More →Unplugging, part….3? 4?
It must be that time again. A friend and colleague is updating a resource for ASAE on timesavers to promote work/life balance, and it got me thinking about some of my principles for work/life balance…
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