May 2014
WSAE Blog

Eric Lanke, CAE

Changing organizational culture starts in the executive's office

WSAE's April 2014 meeting in Green Bay, where Humanize authors Jamie Notter and Maddie Grant facilitated a private discussion with the association CEOs in attendance, has really started me thinking about the unique role that the staff executive has in changing and shaping the culture of any organization.

When it was my turn to summarize my thoughts on the subject, I said that I was coming to see successful associations as those in which leadership and decision-making are not concentrated at the top, but diffused productively across many levels of the organization. Given the ever-increasing need in our environment for nimbleness, innovation and new value creation, I believe this is one of the central challenges my organization is facing.
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May 18-19, 2014 

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May 29, 2014

CEO Roundtable
National Fluid Power Association, West Allis 

 

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May CEO Roundtable
Thursday, May 29, West Allis
11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m.

Join your fellow CEOs for the next Milwaukee CEO Roundtable May 29, hosted by Eric Lanke, CAE at the National Fluid Power Association.  
 
CEO Roundtables provide the occasion to share ideas, information and challenges in an informal setting. This is the perfect opportunity to get to know your CEO peers while discussing topics of interest. Previous discussion topics have included: anti-trust issues, protocols/determining factors for allowing employees to work from home, challenges of leasing and finding the right size office to balance staff needs against budget, changes in the way we recruit and hire staff, and the different membership structures of our respective organizations.
 
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  • I have been reading a lot lately, about trends in leadership for 2014 and beyond. I thought it would be interesting to hear what folks are reading and talking about in their own peer groups.
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