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Association 4.0—A Playbook for Success

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Boards that are professionally, demographically, and ideologically diverse are more likely to be open to risk tolerance. recommends looking outside members’ professional expertise to provide a spectrum of opinions among leaders: “If you don’t have leaders with a range of professional backgrounds, there will not be a lot of new thinking.

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

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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. Think of the concept as a shared journey, an opportunity to build professional competence in a new and exciting area. EI is not a new concept. Who inspires you and why?

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

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They felt that they had no professional home. 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.

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Leadership’s Biggest Perk—Giving Others a Boost

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According to Forbes, 75% of CEOs attribute their success to help from a mentor and 84% of US Fortune 500 companies offer mentoring programs. Winton also notes that this skill-based, collaborative model is the way millennials prefer to work. Seventy-one percent of executives choose mentees of their own gender or race.

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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. Zappos, Square Space, and the Morning Star Company are examples of larger organizations with a flat structure or holacracy. The company is not a hierarchy. Understand the Options.

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How the Pandemic Has Changed Pro Bono

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The pandemic pushed the social sector to make game-changing shifts in community programming, funding models and organizational leadership. Meanwhile, nonprofits faced with the need to diversify programming and revenue models leveraged that surging interest to embark on organizational capacity projects. Skillset Diversification.

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