Sales v. Marketing

HBR’s summer issue is about sales—not really the focus of my work. But there was a good one about stopping the “war” between the sales and marketing departments. I like this one, because even if your organization doesn’t HAVE both sales and marketing departments, it’s...

Always Done It That Way

My apologies to regular readers of the Association Renewal Blog (since I just announced this over there), but I want everyone to know that we have finished writing the "Always Done It That Way" book. If you remember, four colleagues (Jeff De Cagna, David...

Conflict in Boston

A reminder to everyone that I am speaking at the upcoming ASAE & The Center for Association Leadership Annual Meeting in Boston. I can’t believe that it’s just over a month away. My session is titled "Overcoming Your Association’s Fear of...

Boston Blog

As if I don’t have enough to do, I’ve agreed to be an author for ASAE & The Center for Association Leadership’s annual meeting blog this year, which is in Boston (where I was born and grew up, by the way). I wrote for last year’s annual meeting blog in Nashville,...

Happy at Work

I’m posting a lot about generational differences on the Association Renewal Blog, particularly from the recent talk I heard by Arthur Brooks, who wrote the Smith Institute report on generational differences and associations. There’s one important point I wanted to...
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