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Flat, Tall, or In Between—Is It Time to Evaluate Your Organizational Structure?

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You are ready to add new categories of membership, sell products to a different audience, expand programs, or even revise the business model. You can take baby steps and evaluate which strategies are successful and which are not. The company is not a hierarchy. These are telltale signs: Your strategy has changed.

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For Positive Outcomes, Hold a Mirror Up to Board Performance

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Even with a friendly name like “feedback, check-in, or coaching,” a performance evaluation can be uncomfortable, or possibly downright scary. That’s probably why more organizations don’t have a process for evaluating the board of directors, or if they do, that assessment is not continuous. I’ll get on my Association 4.0

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EI Helps Teams Use Technology to Fly

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Lego is another company that has consistently expanded its business model. Some models are more focused on individuals and others on groups and culture. Ensure a long-term commitment to the process by Incorporating EI into your organization’s values and performance evaluations. Ask questions that invite self-evaluation.

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Drones, Robots, and Farmers—Prepare Your Association to Meet Fast-Moving Technology Trends

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Most were CEOs leading companies that provide products and services to associations. Leaders must be prepared to confront fast-moving trends like these: As of 2021, one-quarter of the top 100 consumer goods companies were using 3D printing to create custom products on demand. We talked with entrepreneurs across our community.

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Is Your Remote Team Getting the TLC They Deserve? An Audit Delivers Answers

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A spontaneous cruise of the office was an effective strategy for evaluating a variety of business indicators. The desire to be fully aware of the strengths and weaknesses of your team drives this type of evaluation. Evaluate Resources IT deficits equal a rocky road for remote work. Remember Management by Walking Around?

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Doing good with AI tools: Navigating ethical considerations for the social sector 

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Even large tech companies have had trouble with AI bias, such as Amazon’s controversial hiring AI. Similarly, we saw evidence that the model was associating “People of Latin American descent” with “Incarcerated people.” We continue to refine the data we use for training and evaluating our grants auto-coding system.

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Build a Mission-Worthy Team

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In our models, we assume that astronauts are intelligent, that they’re experts in their technical areas, and that they have at least some teamwork skills. It’s not difficult to evaluate when someone has the right background and experience to do a job. More than 88 percent of Fortune 500 companies in 115 countries use the MBTI.

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