- Lose sight of who you serve. Have your own agenda.
- Exist to make money. And then tell everybody you don’t.
- Let feelings trump truth. It’s much better to be quiet than hurt someone’s feelings.
- Create a good solid conflict of interest at the very core of your association.
- Get people to serve by telling them they won’t have to do anything.
- Work harder to fill empty seats by doing the same thing you’ve always done.
- Refuse to change with your members’ needs and shifting business models.
- Find more ways to charge them instead of adding value to their membership.
- Create a financial beast by needing their money to exist.
- Measure your success by the number of butts in the chairs.
- Don’t listen to anyone else. What do they know?
- Trust evaluations. They’ve been working so well.
- Insist on doing things the way they’ve always been done.
- Feed power struggles and avoid all big elephants in the room.
- Work hard to attract new members instead of wondering why the old ones left.
- Blame it on the economy.
- Let your association be open to people who don’t qualify for membership.
- Embrace the same-old-same-old way of holding conferences.
- Create cliques – this is your chance at high school all over again.
- Let your identity be wrapped up in your position on the board.
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