Sunday, August 16  8:30 – 10:00 a.m.

Building Your Organization for the Future
Over the past 100 years, the most profound and enduring shifts in competitive position have come from management innovation—dramatic breakthroughs in how organizations are managed, led and structured. Based on his most recent research, Hamel has developed a methodology that can help your organization build the ultimate competitive advantage—an ability to proactively reinvent its management DNA. The focus will be on how you can anticipate the management challenges that will determine success in the years ahead; successfully challenge the outmoded management orthodoxies that limit success; uncover the new management principles that will determine industry leadership in the future, and build a capability for ongoing management innovation. In short, Hamel will share ideas on how you can build tomorrow’s best practices today.

The Wall Street Journal recently ranked Gary Hamel as the world’s most influential business thinker, and Fortune magazine has called him “the world’s leading expert on business strategy.” Hamel’s landmark books, Leading the Revolution and Competing for the Future, have appeared on every management bestseller list and have been translated into more than 20 languages. His latest book, The Future of Management, was selected by Amazon.com as the best business book of the year.

During this session the following award winners will be recognized:

• The Key Award
• The Academy of Leaders Award
• The Professional Practice Award

Monday, August 17    9:00 – 10:30 a.m.

Engaging Community and Celebration of the Profession
Blogs, Facebook, YouTube, and Twitter.  These may be buzz words to you, but for millions of people they are the foundation of their online experiences.  Learn how associations are tapping into the power of social technologies to reach, engage and mobilize their members, and leave with a “to do” list on you to get started with your organization. 

Charlene Li, coauthor of Groundswell: Winning in a World Transformed by Social Technologies, is an independent thought leader and analyst on emerging technologies, with a specific focus on social technologies.

During this session the following groups will be recognized:

• The New Class of CAEs
• The New Class of Fellows
• The New Class of DELP (Diversity Executive Leadership Program)

Tuesday, August 18    2:30 – 4:00 p.m.

Politics and Culture of the Changing Global Landscape
Over the last five hundred years, the world has seen three seismic shifts of power with huge consequences. The first, around the 16th century, was the rise of the West, which has dominated the globe economically, politically, and culturally ever since. The second, in the late 19th century, was the rise of the United States of America, the single most powerful country the world has ever seen, which has shaped global order for 75 years now. And the third is the rise of Asia, first Japan, and now China and India. This is generating a new global landscape where power is shifting and wealth and innovation are bubbling up in unexpected places. With his customary lucidity, insight, and imagination, Fareed Zakaria will tell us what we can expect from this third shift, the “rise of the rest”.

Fareed Zakaria, editor and columnist of Newsweek, is host of a weekly foreign affairs program for CNN, Fareed Zakaria GPS. He is also author of the book, The Post-American World.

During this session, the following groups will be recognized:

• The Boards of ASAE & The Center
• The Associations Make a Better World award winners

2009 ASAE & The Center Annual Meeting & Exposition

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