12/18/2017

A Last Look at Leadership in 2017

There were plenty of challenges for leaders this past year

If disruption is your thing, 2017 was your year.

The first year of the Trump presidency is the most obvious example of how this year wasn’t business as usual—it was forever topic A on cable news and social media. But the shifts were wide-ranging. New technologies, especially automation, sent a lot of association leaders scrambling to determine what those transformations meant for members. An ever-increasing wave of sexual-assault allegations in the political and media worlds opened up a conversation about power and what’s required to halt its abuses. And the nature of how work gets done, from remote employees to gig-economy workers, presents a new set of challenges for the industries associations serve.

But some things remain the same. It’s not exactly reassuring to know that CEOs continue to struggle to manage employees and agendas, or that boards aren’t as well-trained or oriented in strategic thinking as we might hope. But they are at least known knowns, forever part of the association-management landscape.

Please click here to read the complete article from Associations Now.