What’s Popping? Ageism
What’s at Stake? Loss of Diversity, Experience, Expertise, and the Ill of Stereotyping Older People. Dig Deeper Besides being illegal, ageism can have serious negative consequences, both for individuals and society as a whole. Here is a baker’s dozen of the dangers of ageism: 1. Impact on the Mental and Physical Health of Individuals 2. […]
Association community as an institution
What’s Popping? Should the association community see itself as an institution? What’s at Stake? Losing value, reputation, and influence Dig Deeper Some individual Associations are seen as institutions along with the government, schools and universities, courts, banks, and media, but it is the association community as a whole. The military, family, and so on. But […]
20th v 21st centuries
The differences between the 20th and 21st centuries in terms of political, social, economic, and technological trends and issues are significant and multifaceted. Here are some key distinctions in each of these areas: 1. Political Trends and Issues: · Globalization: The 21st Century has seen an acceleration of globalization, with increased interconnectedness among nations. This […]
What’s Popping? Rethinking Nonprofit Governance
What’s at Stake? The nonprofit community’s potential and capacity to envision the future and attain improved outcomes in a vastly transformed world requires new thinking by governance. Dig Deeper Our new century is pressuring the association community to rethink almost everything about its operations, structure, and existence. The mission is lost in a more complex […]
Future Governance – Time to Rethink, Vision, and Act
This is not a new potential board structure chart. What is good practice in the fast paced environment in which we operate? What must we do to understand the environmental changes requiring us to reconsider some of the assumptions that created the board structures typical in today’s Association community? This is a call to discuss […]
Association Strategic What?
Over time I have become concerned about using strategic planning. It is not to say that planning is unimportant. Instead, is it genuinely strategic, and has the process overtaken the value of producing a fundamental strategic analysis and foresight-driven outcome? Many of the so-called strategic plans do not engage the makers in a foresight-driven process […]