Eric Lanke
Association executive, constant reader, and occasional author
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Saturday, November 12, 2016
Sister Carrie by Theodore Dreiser
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I knew nothing about Dreiser or Sister Carrie when I picked up this book. My paperback copy, indeed, belongs technically to my wife, but ...
Monday, November 7, 2016
The Limitations of Crowd-Funding for Associations
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In many ways, associations are the original crowd-funded organizations. Long before the term became popular and proliferated across digita...
Monday, October 31, 2016
The Distributed Periphery
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I was flipping through the pages of a favorite book this week and came across the following quote: The trick is to ... recognize that t...
Saturday, October 29, 2016
Ender’s Game by Orson Scott Card
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Ender’s Game is a book about children in adult situations, and for that, Card has evidently been heavily criticized. I recall a letter ...
Monday, October 24, 2016
Defining the Right Ends Takes Time
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That's one the observations I took away from my association's latest Board meeting. Defining the right "ends" (i.e., the...
Monday, October 17, 2016
Who Drives the Granularity of the Discussion?
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I heard something on a recent video posted on Seth Kahan's visionary leadership website that really resonated with me. When it come...
Saturday, October 15, 2016
By Sorrow’s River by Larry McMurtry
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Book 3 of McMurtry’s Berrybender Narratives, so called because they relate the trials and tribulations of the members of an English family...
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