Building the Best Team: Curation not Creation
“Choose your best team, not your best individuals” – Mark de Rond, Forbes Assembling a volunteer team is, I believe, about more than the sum of its individual parts. A strong and successful team should be curated rather than created – and this means thinking carefully about each member as a specific piece of the puzzle, […]
Demystifying AI: Q&A with Guillermo Ortiz de Zarate
Editor’s note: Associations everywhere are using AI to make their processes more efficient. We’ve all heard by now of the radical potential of AI, but it can be hard to connect the dots from these big ideas to small practical steps. We want to demystify AI to make it accessible to techies and Luddites alike! Recently, we […]
Why We Are Creating an Innovation Center
Humans are not very good at imagining the future. Indeed, TIME magazine mused in 1951 that “By the 21st Century our people doubtless will be squint-eyed, hunchbacked and fond of the dark” – a vision which has happily not (yet) been substantiated. When it comes to creating initiatives, making plans, and envisioning projects, we cannot assume that we […]
Lean Methodology: Before and After
I first read The Lean Startup by Eric Ries in 2013. It was a lightbulb moment to see thoughts that had been percolating in my head over the years be articulated in such a way. Since then, I’ve been implementing the methodology with my team at the National Council of Architectural Registration Boards (NCARB) where I work […]