Seth Kahan

"Visionary Leadership: How Association Leaders Embrace Disruption in the 21st Century" plays out what it takes to lead associations in a time of accelerating change. It is designed to be a tool for driving boards and executive teams to new levels of performance, and a powerful resource for CEOs seeking to raise their game.

The book includes a self-assessment covering twelve competencies sorted into three categories: Market Acumen, Association Leadership, and Personal Power. You'll find… Show more

"Visionary Leadership: How Association Leaders Embrace Disruption in the 21st Century" plays out what it takes to lead associations in a time of accelerating change. It is designed to be a tool for driving boards and executive teams to new levels of performance, and a powerful resource for CEOs seeking to raise their game.

The book includes a self-assessment covering twelve competencies sorted into three categories: Market Acumen, Association Leadership, and Personal Power. You'll find stories, templates, strategies and tactics. And you will meet some well-known and exceptional CEOs--visionary leaders who have accomplished extraordinary things.

Since 2002 Seth Kahan has been working hand-in-glove with association CEOs on strategy and innovation. To date he has worked with 100+ CEOs, numerous boards, and senior executive teams to raise their sights, performance, and impact. In this book he shares what he has learned from his diagnostic comparisons across his clients and body of work. Show less

Innovation is worth little unless it generates lasting success, and gaining measurable results from new ideas requires more than creative risk-taking. Successful innovation demands a tactical approach, and Getting Innovation Right reveals what you can do to secure real traction and growth in the marketplace with new ideas, products, and services.

I use an outcome-based approach, based on my experience leading innovation initiatives at a diverse range of organizations to help you… Show more

Innovation is worth little unless it generates lasting success, and gaining measurable results from new ideas requires more than creative risk-taking. Successful innovation demands a tactical approach, and Getting Innovation Right reveals what you can do to secure real traction and growth in the marketplace with new ideas, products, and services.

I use an outcome-based approach, based on my experience leading innovation initiatives at a diverse range of organizations to help you identify the inflection points that generate market opportunities for your company and leverage the best techniques for securing a foothold in a lucrative new space.

The book is based on a framework of 7 key activities for results-driven innovation. It provides detailed techniques on each of these:
1. Pursuing and Leveraging Inflection Points
2. Building Innovation Capacity
3. Collecting Intelligence
4. Shifting Perspective
5. Exploiting Disruption
6. Generating Value
7. Driving Uptake

The accompanying workbook can be downloaded here for free: http://bit.ly/YbzALN Show less

This essay focuses on the relationship between member value and financial growth. It makes visible the nine gradients of correlation these two have with each other, and highlights the sweet spot I call the Synergy Zone.

This book lays out a view of leadership communication that says change doesn't flow top-down, bottom-up, or sideways, but inside-out. This is how change spreads through a complex system successfully - the only other options are force or failure.

When the right people are having the right conversations and interactions, then they act in concert even though the situations they confront independently are impossible to predict or coordinate.

My book includes:
1. Five ways to… Show more

This book lays out a view of leadership communication that says change doesn't flow top-down, bottom-up, or sideways, but inside-out. This is how change spreads through a complex system successfully - the only other options are force or failure.

When the right people are having the right conversations and interactions, then they act in concert even though the situations they confront independently are impossible to predict or coordinate.

My book includes:
1. Five ways to penetrate information overload
2. How to create a story that sparks change, getting people to take action
3. How to identify your most valuable players and how to equip and energize them
4. Six steps to construct a breakthrough
5. Expert input from John Kotter, Steve Denning, Ken & Mary Gergen, and others
plus templates, step-by-step instructions, frameworks, and guidelines to get results

Download the accompanying workbook here for free: http://bit.ly/17vOgYM Show less

This little handbook outlines tools and techniques to create organizational communities and community events that provide strategic returns. It reveals the techniques I created while building thematic groups at the World Bank during the years we were identified as a Most Admired Knowledge Enterprise, but generalizes them so anyone can put them to use.

The handbook includes:
* Ten Techniques for Turning a Meeting into a Beehive
* Explicit instructions on how to use Jumpstart… Show more

This little handbook outlines tools and techniques to create organizational communities and community events that provide strategic returns. It reveals the techniques I created while building thematic groups at the World Bank during the years we were identified as a Most Admired Knowledge Enterprise, but generalizes them so anyone can put them to use.

The handbook includes:
* Ten Techniques for Turning a Meeting into a Beehive
* Explicit instructions on how to use Jumpstart Storytelling, my technique for accelerating rapport among professionals that has been used around the globe by organizations like the Peace Corps, Swiss Development Bank, Royal Dutch Shell, and hundreds of others
* Three case studies including the World Bank, SIGMA, and INFORMS Show less