Abandon All But Tomorrow When Planning Your Conference July 18, 2018 by Jeff Hurt When do you stop pouring resources into things that have achieved their purpose? asked management guru Peter Drucker. It’s one of Drucker’s signature strategies: abandoning the past for tomorrow. He called it the concept of purposeful abandonment. Purposeful abandonment doesn’t sound very attractive. Few leaders brag about the product, service or idea that they abandoned. … [Read more…] Filed Under: Event Planning, Experience Design Tagged With: , abandoning the past for tomorrow, conference growth, conference growth policy, conference growth policy of abandonment, conference purposeful abandonment, Peter Drucker, purposeful abandonment
Steps To Minimize And Prevent Your Conference Organizational Debt July 6, 2018 by Jeff Hurt To be successful in the 21st Century, we have to become comfortable with ambiguity and contradiction. We must learn to reframe our questions and rise above conventional mental models. We have to embrace experimentation and try new things. We have to adopt strategies that encourage us to abandon ingrained, comfortable ideas and employ new ones … [Read more…] Filed Under: Event Planning Tagged With: , Bounty Program, conference experimentation, conference improvement, conference organizational debt, culture of experimentation, growth policy, interest, organizational debt, purposeful abandonment, refactor, refactoring conference organizational debt
