Eric Lanke

This short work is commonly known as “the classic manual of parliamentary procedure.” And if my experience is in any way typical, it is casu...

I've been posting these Top Five lists at the end of every year for the last seven years. Over those seven years, a handful of posts hav...

Eight years ago, on September 5, 2011, I made my first post on this blog. I called it " Recipes for Innovation ," and in it, I t...

This past week one of my staff members retired from working for our association. She has been with the organization for just over 30 years...

I think I've mentioned before that I got my start in association management as a meeting planner. When I started I had zero experience...

In last week's post I made a passing reference to one of the main reasons I keep blogging -- namely, that I enjoy having readers respo...

Two weeks ago, I posted about an upcoming panel discussion I was asked to participate in -- a panel on how associations are successfully w...

Today we launched a podcast at my association. It's called Fluid Power Forward , and on it, we plan to interview interesting people who ...

I've been invited to speak at an upcoming conference I'm attending on how my association is successfully working to develop a bett...

My association's Board of Directors has eighteen people on it. Whenever I'm comparing notes with other association executives abou...

It's budget time at the association I work for. And what I mean by that is that the budget for our new fiscal year has been approved b...

We track our members. We don't use face recognition software, metadata, or complicated algorithms. We use an even more diabolical mech...

I wrote a blog post back in July 2012 called The Chairman's Gift . It's a pretty popular post, making most of my year-end Top Five...

A bit of a rant this week. On my most recent business trip, a staff member of mine rented a car for us. She is not a "preferred...

There’s a long subtitle here: “Strategy Deployment and Execution Process for Breakthrough Business Performance.” The book was given to be ...

There are two kinds of association executives. Those that come from the industry their association represents, and those that come from th...

I attend a fair number of education programs and, as a result, listen to a fair number of speakers and presentations. Sometimes, the most ...

I lead a trade association. That means that our members are technically companies, not people; but, of course, the companies in question a...

This article on Forbes.com caught my eye this week. It's titled Why Companies That Embrace "Red Is Good" Get The Best Resul...

This week's blog post is partly inspired by this post on Seth Godin's blog . In it, he makes the case that the idea of "reach...