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How Nonprofit Leaders Can Use Strategy and Technology to Enhance Organization’s Performance

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Unprecedented competition, higher expectations, accelerating technology, changing preferences and time pressures are all converging to create a challenging landscape. The technology imperative. Many associations and non-profits have been slow to adopt technology in a world that is rapidly going digital.

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Are You Using Those Fun New Technologies to Monitor, Mentor or "Motivate" Your Employees? Prepare for Sabotage

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Guest post from Robert Galford: It has been hard to ignore the recent spate of stories about the newest techniques and technologies designed to increase employee efficiency, motivation and/or engagement. You may have the technological tools at your disposal, but they should not be the only tools in your belt.

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Why Businesses Must Grasp Millennial Thinking or Face Economic Calamity

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One example is their relationship with technology. All of us, regardless of which generation we belong to, have been impacted by technology,” Costin says. You could think of it this way: If technology were a geyser, Baby Boomers and Generation Xers have been sprayed by its impact, but Millennials got drenched.”

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More Automation is Coming! Bulletproof Your Career

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The continuing advancement and convergence of artificial intelligence, bio-technology, nanotechnology, virtual and augmented reality, quantum computing, and Big Data will automate millions of jobs in the United States. I believe we humans will need to excel at doing something valuable that the technology itself will not be able to do well.

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Leadership Comes in Many Forms. Helping Business Save the Earth.

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To increase the innovative output of business, especially the output of sustainable technologies, requires pushes and nudges along the edges. Business leaders clearly have a role to play in driving innovative new sustainable technologies that disrupt current markets. Time is of the essence.

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Leadership and the Innovation Crisis

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They point to shiny startups and the seemingly unstoppable progress of technology, and proclaim that our age is on track to solve all problems and cure all ills. We still create things, we still solve problems, we still design the most amazing technologies. I say they are sorely mistaken. This doesn’t mean innovation is dead.

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Is Your Business's Digital Communication Culture Working?

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The dysfunction is directly related to technology and our perceived human need to "respond." Technology provides us with immediacy. Ultimately, technology provides us with such immediacy that we have become a global generation of humans who "respond" rather than a generation of humans who "think, reflect" and then "respond."

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