Faulty Governance Models Can Obliterate Your Conference June 9, 2015 by Jeff Hurt Does your organization have a permission-withholding culture or a permission-granting culture? One of those cultures is empowering, healthy and life-giving. The other is stifling, frustrating, dysfunctional and can annihilate your conference success. Unfortunately, I’ve found that more organizations have permission-withholding cultures. They foster three characteristics: bureaucracy, control and mistrust. These three dysfunctions disempower leaders and … [Read more…] Filed Under: Event Planning Tagged With: , association best practices, association governance, conference best practices, conference governance model, governance model, meeting planner, meeting professional, nonprofit governance