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Getting Excited about New Ideas
by Greg Hill, Executive Director, Kansas Dental
Charitable Foundation
For me, there is nothing better than seeing other
people’s innovative ideas to get my creative juices
flowing.
That’s a big part of the reason why attending
the American Society of Association Executives
Annual Convention is on my list of things to do.
As those of you who regularly follow the KDA’s
digital communications know, I recently attended the
2010 ASAE Annual Convention in Los Angeles.
Now, I have written extensively about the
meeting on my blog the “daily.briefing”,
you can find daily by visiting the
KDA Website, found under the
heading communications.
In a nutshell, here are my major “take-aways” from
LA:
Develop Twenty First Century Leadership
From Bill George, author of the best-selling
True
North, I learned that
the Twentieth Century model of vertical or
hierarchical leadership is dead. The Twenty
First Century model calls for empowerment of
individuals within your organization. He said
that if the people you have working for you aren't
smarter than you, you need to get different people.
That might be a hard concept to grasp, but one that
I think deserves some thought.
Engage Generation Y
From Jason Ryan Dorsey, one of the leading experts
on Generation Y, I learned that there are very
unique ways to reach young people and that if we are
to continue to be a successful organization in the
future, we have to challenge ourselves to do things
differently.
Don’t be afraid to Fail
Finally from Bill Capodagli, author of Innovate the
Pixar Way, I learned that it’s time to “destroy the
old way of doing things.” He says to never overlook
creativity and to encourage failure.
That’s right, encourage failure.
Now, that doesn’t mean that we should ask
people not to do their work.
It means that we must encourage people to
work outside of their comfort zone and push the
limits of ideas.
Some work, other do not.
In the end, do a post-mortem and find the
five things that worked well and don’t neglect the
five things you would do over again, even when
something is a success.
Today, the expected speed in instantaneous and so we
are working hard to deliver that speed.
I’m excited about the things I learned and am very
excited to be a part of bringing some of those new
ideas to you.
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