Why The Michigan Municipal League Offers Sabbaticals The cool thing about doing a sabbatical is that it isn’t just for the person to get getting time off, but it’s for everyone around them who has to fill in. When you look taking a sabbatical and we decided to put one forward where people of a certain point in the organization get one month off –...
Read MoreWe are taking our own advice and we are going to take a hiatus from producing weekly podcasts at PureReinvention. We have a big event coming up (Connect: Detroit on May 22 – there’s still time to register) and all of us here feel that we need to take a step back and assess how we can best build and present future content in more digestible and...
Read MoreWhy Detroit? Since late 2014, Mike Bills and I have traveled to Detroit on a monthly basis to record PureReinvention interviews. The podcasts created from those interviews primarily focus on the movers and shakers at the grassroots level – that’s where the most exciting stories of reinvention can be found. I just finished working on Mike and Jodi’s podcast...
Read More“[Creating space] is not about time, as I learned. It’s actually looking at everything in a different way. Like stepping outside the association’s front door and looking in.” -Amy Frankmann, Executive Director, Michigan Nursery & Landscape Association Podcast Episode 025 Like most new executive directors, I felt the need to spend my early days as an...
Read MorePureReinvention had the honor of hosing a Twitter chat with Josh Linkner (@joshlinkner) during the height of the ASAE conference in Detroit in August. Participants asked Josh about what the Detroit experience can offer associations and where in Detroit can you see reinvention in action. Josh also shared some tips on how to manage change experiments as well as his...
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