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		<title>Everybody lies</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 May 2012 19:20:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The series had its ups and downs and wild swings in quality, but there is no question that Fox Television’s “House M.D.,” which came to an end after eight seasons this week, was consistently ambitious and compelling TV.  Held together at its center by the bravura performance of Hugh Laurie in the title role, the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=markjgolden.com&#038;blog=22231075&#038;post=307&#038;subd=markjgolden&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Context, confidence and authority</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Apr 2012 18:50:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Making innovation a habit</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Apr 2012 14:11:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark J. Golden, FASAE, CAE</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[To be real, innovation needs to be a habit, not a standalone project. And habits are learned through constant practice &#8211; doing something consistently and constantly until it becomes an ingrained feature of everyday activity. Something that is constantly happening, almost without conscious effort or thought. Part of that is systems and environment. Apple is [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=markjgolden.com&#038;blog=22231075&#038;post=270&#038;subd=markjgolden&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Bringing the next generation into governance</title>
		<link>http://markjgolden.com/2012/03/28/bringing-the-next-generation-into-governance/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Mar 2012 17:10:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark J. Golden, FASAE, CAE</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When I ask association leaders (both volunteers and staff professionals) what their biggest long-term governance challenge is, the most frequent answer I hear back is the challenge of bringing the next generation of leaders on board. &#8220;Young people don&#8217;t volunteer the way we used to.&#8221; &#8220;They don&#8217;t have the time to devote to volunteering that [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=markjgolden.com&#038;blog=22231075&#038;post=256&#038;subd=markjgolden&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Consensus is not a dirty word</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Jan 2012 17:21:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark J. Golden, FASAE, CAE</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[At a GWSAE Speakers Series event a number of years ago, Margaret Thatcher described consensus as the opposite of leadership.  She used words to the effect that consensus is an abdication of leadership obligations; true leaders take you somewhere the group otherwise would never go. Recently, on ASAE’s CEO network listserv, a rather energetic discussion [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=markjgolden.com&#038;blog=22231075&#038;post=248&#038;subd=markjgolden&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Associations don&#8217;t have long tails</title>
		<link>http://markjgolden.com/2012/01/04/associations-dont-have-long-tails/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Jan 2012 20:26:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark J. Golden, FASAE, CAE</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[For a while there, Chris Anderson’s book, The Long Tail: Why the Future of Business is Selling Less of More, seemed to dominate the association consulting/seminar/blogging space.  Now that its currency has dimmed a little, I have a confession to make.  I struggled for a long time trying to like this book1.  But in the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=markjgolden.com&#038;blog=22231075&#038;post=209&#038;subd=markjgolden&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Stay focused on mission</title>
		<link>http://markjgolden.com/2011/11/18/stay-focussed-on-vision/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Nov 2011 19:27:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark J. Golden, FASAE, CAE</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Association Advocacy]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The new president of the national, not-for-profit organization urged his membership to remember: &#8220;The [organization] we passionately love is hardly some cumbersome, outmoded club of sticklers, with a medieval bureaucracy, silly &#8230; rules on fancy letterhead, one more movement rife with squabbles, opinions and disagreement.&#8221; No. All those elements might exist, or be perceived to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=markjgolden.com&#038;blog=22231075&#038;post=194&#038;subd=markjgolden&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Stop competing</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Oct 2011 18:24:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark J. Golden, FASAE, CAE</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[That somewhat startling and counterintuitive piece of advice comes from futurist Dan Burrus.  “No matter what your angle for competing – whether you are competing on price, service, quality, time, design, or anything else – the unfortunate outcome is you’re making yourself too much like everyone else.  So even when you are in the lead, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=markjgolden.com&#038;blog=22231075&#038;post=186&#038;subd=markjgolden&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Professionalism, resilience and teamwork</title>
		<link>http://markjgolden.com/2011/09/09/professionalism-resilience-and-teamwork/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Sep 2011 19:47:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark J. Golden, FASAE, CAE</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Commonplace words &#8230; but recent events have added a depth of meaning to each of them. Midafternoon on August 23rd, a magnitude 5.9 earthquake struck Virginia. Earthquakes in this region are rare. Earthquakes of that size are unheard of. Much of the Washington DC area was able to shake it off and move on.  The little [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=markjgolden.com&#038;blog=22231075&#038;post=174&#038;subd=markjgolden&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Loyalty Factor</title>
		<link>http://markjgolden.com/2011/09/02/the-loyalty-factor/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Sep 2011 15:48:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark J. Golden, FASAE, CAE</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As consumers, there are some products, brands, or stores we frequent out of habit. And in stable, calm and good times that’s enough. Trouble is, all it takes is the slightest little disruption to make “because I have always shopped here” an insufficient excuse for me not to take my business elsewhere. Associations are even [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=markjgolden.com&#038;blog=22231075&#038;post=160&#038;subd=markjgolden&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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