Candid

MARCH 11, 2025

Since late 2023, weve been talking with community members about how, together, we could make Kansas City a national model for equitable economic mobility. Is this how we build a model for significant, long-lasting systems change? During my first year as CEO of the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation, our biggest priority was listening.

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Associations Now

AUGUST 18, 2019

That shoe-leather approach to leadership among members (and potential ones) has paid off for the trade association: Since Berger took the reins, NAFCU’s revenue has grown 31 percent, and more than 465 new members have joined since 2015. But a CEO doesn’t care about a contribution in Topeka, Kansas.”.

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Association Subculture

FEBRUARY 10, 2010

All of the following signs point to an association whose leadership is taking itself entirely too seriously and may be at risk. Leaders in charge of an ego-driven governance system often believe they are vested with certain “special” rights giving them the green light to lasso as many sacred cows as they have rope.

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SCD Group

DECEMBER 11, 2016

A recent trip through the Kansas City airport highlights three changes that illustrate how – without modification – change creates chaos. Big boards with layers of committees and elaborate schemes in the officer track tend to bog down associations and deter younger members from leadership.

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