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Are You Done With Digital Transformation?

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Is it time to put a wrap on digital transformation? Yes, digital transformation depends on hardware and software. Digital transformation involves adopting a vision that continues to expand along with business and market possibilities. Digital initiatives need constant tweaking and tending. Is there more to accomplish?

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Soft Skills Support Hard Leadership Challenges

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In a digital market moving at the speed of a video game, recruiting the right staff is a make-or-break activity. Lately, I’ve been speaking and writing about the importance of emotional intelligence and how the softer skills add a critical dimension to digital initiatives. Digital tools are essential to that effectiveness.

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Build a Successful Team, Know Where Your People Thrive

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Sue” was tapped to head the department because of her knowledge of the current AMS and her passion for, and scrupulous maintenance of, the data. She was so protective of “her” data that she had trouble inviting anyone who she deemed less knowledgeable into the conversation. The key to leadership in the digital age is empathy.

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Association 4.0—A Playbook for Success

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It is the product of ongoing research to prepare our clients for success in digital markets. But the typical association model challenges agility. observed that being a reactive leader is untenable in the digital era. I understand that CEOs must travel and learn, but I worry that their knowledge isn’t passed on to the team.

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The Live Enterprise Model

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Decisions are the triggers of the digital economy, the actions that initiate response and provide its shape and direction. The model enables the organization to rapidly experiment, learn and scale.” What differentiates the Live Enterprise from other operating models? Anyone can adopt Live Enterprise model principles.

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Don’t Get Too Comfortable at the Top–AI Puts a Twist on Leadership

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leadership is how we christened the skill set we identified for success in digital markets. But we didn’t anticipate a pandemic that would force every association to become conversant in digital solutions. You must be the architect of a digital ecology that translates innovation into action. Association 4.0

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

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That steep trajectory isn’t a good fit with the speed of innovation required to navigate digital markets. You are ready to add new categories of membership, sell products to a different audience, expand programs, or even revise the business model. In my experience, the latter is the more common scenario. Clarify Roles.

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