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Stay the Course Through Changing Weather—Strategic Advice From Association CEOs 

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During 2018 and 2019, my business partner, Kevin Ordonez and I, interviewed approximately 50 association executives. We thought we could help our colleagues prepare for that disruption by gathering advice from people who greet change as an unexpected advantage. Resist the temptation to model the competition.

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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. Our interview process is rigorous. We do phone screening followed by three waves of interviews with teammates from different cross sections of the company.

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Association 4.0—A Playbook for Success

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To put our ideas into real-world context, we interviewed leaders who are using this approach to grow their organizations. I’ve summarized advice from our contributors to offer practical ideas for beginning to integrate the Association 4.0 But the typical association model challenges agility. We changed our entire model.

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

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shared this valuable advice. Several years ago, I interviewed Stuart Meyer*. If you don’t have the budget to provide these resources, you probably need to rethink staffing and business models. Follow the survey with targeted in-person interviews based on the results. Your team should have up-to-date hardware and software.

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Build a Successful Team, Know Where Your People Thrive

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For example, the answer to the question “Tell me about a project that you’re proud of” usually gets more weight in a job interview than the response to “Describe what you like best and least about your most recent position.” You can have the best governance model, but with the wrong people on the team, you won’t be successful.”

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Leadership’s Biggest Perk—Giving Others a Boost

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Encouraging a colleague to shoot for that sought-after certification, offering advice on an important project, or simply inspiring the confidence to see future potential, are the less visible activities that make leadership meaningful. When we interviewed her for our book Association 4.0: That’s one of the perks of leadership.

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Interview: Brigitte Hoyer Gosselink on the Google AI Impact Challenge

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I recently interviewed Brigitte Hoyer Gosselink, Head of Product Impact, who designed the challenged to learn more. We’re open to ideas across the technical spectrum from those that might be more advanced to those that apply existing working AI models to social impact use cases.

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