An association leader or board member can be easily enchanted by one word: more. More products and services, more member groups to reach out to, more sponsors, more advocacy efforts and on and on.
It's a natural instinct for a mission-driven organization: If your goal is to make sure that the International Widget Society promotes the importance of widgets to every person on the planet, then your widget-y work is never done.
But the "more" philosophy can be self-defeating. More effort means more layers of supervision and management, more stress, more expense—and, quite often, very little payoff. Writing in Fast Company,productivity expert Donna McGeorge puts a spotlight on the toll this can take on leaders. Accumulation, she writes, "gathers layers: inherited systems, obligations that no longer serve a purpose. Often, there's the comforting illusion that being across everything means being in control. But this is a fragile place to be."
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