By Gerard F. Hurley, CAEAssociation Executive Resources Group Effective communications, or the lack of it, is the discipline that often separates organizations in the ascendancy from all others. A group must have a vision and mission and know with certainty its members’ wants, needs, and expectations; it needs to develop the required assets and deliver the anticipated “benefits” to have something to tell, of course. All easier said than done. In my last dozen years as an association consultant/executive recruiter and in thirty years as an association CEO/executive staff, I’ve become convinced that a lack of clear communications has been a major factor in the demise of CEOs… Read More