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If foresight is about anticipating the future, observation is about understanding the present. An effective strategy requires leaders to pay […]

March is Music In Our Schools Month, sponsored by the National Association for Music Education, and this year’s theme—“United Through Music”—could

Strategic planning begins with foresight—the ability to anticipate what lies ahead. For association and business executives, foresight is not a

Executives in both associations and businesses understand a hard truth: strategy cannot be compressed into a single day. Yet many

Strategic planning has become one of the most misunderstood responsibilities of association boards. Too often, organizations attempt to compress an

So what comes next? If the first 250 years taught us that ideals can endure, the next 250 will test

Anniversaries invite rituals. Let’s choose rituals that renew the promise. Celebration should be joyful, yes—but also generative. Here are concrete

Honoring the promise means acknowledging the gap. Equality is our creed, but not always our condition. In every sector, we

America’s progress has always been collective. We mythologize rugged individualism, but we live by organized interdependence. Associations are where that

On July 4, 1776, a group of audacious citizens set an idea loose in the world: that all men are