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Are Marketing and Membership at Opposite Poles? Take the Journey to Collaboration

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The days when board members holed up in a conference room and mapped the organization’s future based on anecdotal evidence, political expediency, and personal experience should be over. Don’t tolerate hidden agendas, negative attitudes, or behavior that’s disruptive to the group. Be clear about accountability.

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Are Marketing and Membership at Opposite Poles? Take the Journey to Collaboration

.orgSource

The days when board members holed up in a conference room and mapped the organization’s future based on anecdotal evidence, political expediency, and personal experience should be over. Don’t tolerate hidden agendas, negative attitudes, or behavior that’s disruptive to the group. Effective strategy begins with an integrated plan.

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Jon Husband, Guest Post: The New Realities of Engagement – Stories That Drive Action Planning and Implementation

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

It offers us a “Map” of how each story affects people and communities. It maps out our plans, our design, our work, the response, our redesign, our work, the response and the overall progress to crossing the Chasm . This enables us to design how to use story effectively, and helps the broader work to be powerfully engaging.

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Notes from the Future: Reflections on the IMLS Meeting on Museums and Libraries in the 21st Century

Museum 2.0

Unfortunately, for some directors, “sustainability” means “finding long-term ways to receive funding to do the same things we’ve been doing.” This attitude is often self-serving: it’s also a practical problem for those who actually want to create change. But that doesn’t mean we shouldn’t think about the future.

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Executive management in hard times - Retrenchment, reflection, transition, recovery

ASU Lodestar Center

But, the forward-looking executive will recognize that the successful and sustainable organizations of the future will be those that are organized and positioned for adaptability and innovation in a marketplace of changing needs, attitudes, preferences, and points of access and that are willing to make structural adaptations to meet new realities.