Empower Yourself

During your commute, while you are sitting in traffic or wondering if public transportation will ever get you to the office, you start daydreaming about working at home. You think to yourself, “Oh, it would be so great. No commute and look at all that time I’d save. And it would be SO much less stressful. I […]

AssociationSuccess.org thrives in experimentation mode. Our size, reputation and supportive community gives us the flexibility to take risks and try out new formats for our content. That’s why we decided to try a particularly exciting experiment with SURGE, the interactive virtual summit we held from November 7-9th. The whole goal was to capitalize on collective knowledge, […]

The original plan for this particular publication was to round up our most popular articles of 2017 and write curated blurbs on them, just like we did last year. Easy enough, right? This information is ready available à la analytics by looking for the most clicked articles. But I was challenged by a community member: “Click rates don’t […]

Let’s talk about the elusive work-life balance. When was the last time you took a vacation? I mean a real one, where you disconnected from your phone and ignored your email? What about at weekends – are you the first to leave on a Friday or do you stay in the office until the cleaner comes […]

Nowadays, Virtual Reality, Augmented Reality and Mixed Reality are becoming household terms in the same way “Smartphone” did 10 years ago, and “www” did 10 years before that. In each decade, adoption of the technology started small but grew exponentially, soon becoming indispensable for business and personal use. Today, where do the next generation technologies stand? […]

Innovation is not easy. Switching up working practices at associations that have existed for decades takes tenacity, especially if you have a relatively small sphere of influence. But we should never let complacency get in the way of progress. I believe you can influence change in your organization at any level if the environment is primed. […]

Call me optimistic, but I believe in the power of one. Inside each of us is the ability to influence, motivate and lead. If you want to be a change agent, you can be, no matter what your formal role at your association. Why do I believe this? Because I’ve done it. For over 13 […]

I was an association executive. I started right out of college and, within six months, I became an executive director. I was in over my head, but worked 10-14 hour days to cover my lack of knowledge. I didn’t sleep, and when I did, it was from exhaustion after a complete emotional breakdown. I drank […]

CAAAAW! CAAAAW! The crow’s “caw” sounded unnatural and abnormally human. Almost like he was reading a script written by another crow. He kind of was, in reality. A while back, I was at The National Aviary in Pittsburgh. I was in a foyer with three cages individually occupied by two parrots and a crow. The […]

You can’t teach an old dog new tricks. Old habits die hard. Brain cells never regenerate. This is the conventional wisdom, and everyone has probably heard something like it at some point. But recent research and case studies are turning this so-called “conventional wisdom” on its head. More and more, studies are demonstrating our brains are […]