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Fresh, Clear, Well-Seasoned Perspective
Spoiler Alert: If you have not seen the Pixar movie, “Ratatouille,” you might want to skip watching the clip in this post. The movie is eleven years old, so if you haven’t seen it by now you might...
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Anchoring to $100 of Rotary Foundation Giving
Anchoring Bias: A cognitive bias where an individual relies too heavily on an initial piece of information offered (considered the anchor) when making decisions. Anchoring occurs when, during decision...
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The Pairing Program – Following Up a Rotary Membership Success Story
In a recent four-part series on membership, I wrote about the conundrum of “lightening strike” Rotary clubs. Amid the wreckage of the vast majority of Rotary clubs that fail to grow, there always seem...
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A Rotary Valentine’s Day Post
If you love Rotary like I do, (if you’re reading this post you probably suffer from the same affliction) then we can probably agree that Rotary can be the most frustrating, aggravating, confusing, and...
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Ten Possible Rotary New Year’s Resolutions
Is it too late to talk about New Year’s resolutions? I mean it’s January 8th as I write this, so we’ve kind of already skipped into the new calendar year. Yes, I know we are halfway through the Rotary...
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Rotary Membership Part IV: 10 Reasons Why Rotary Shouldn’t Advertise for New...
In Part III of our discussion about Rotary membership, Implementing a Comprehensive Rotary Marketing Campaign, we explored a comprehensive marketing campaign that coordinated traditional advertising,...
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Rotary International – Getting “Back to Business”
In the “good old days” of Rotary, if you started a business in town one of the first things you did was to join the local Rotary club. Business owners knew Rotary was a place to network with other...
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Electing a new RI Director for Zone’s 33-34
To be an RI Director is a big deal. I mean a REALLY big deal. These are the committed, really smart, highly motivated Rotarians who fly close to the sun, meeting with the RI President and forming...
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Measuring “Engagement” in “Hands On” Service Projects
NOTE: Occasionally the RFA blog takes on subjects that may make readers blood boil as we poke and prod at long-held Rotary beliefs. Today we are taking on the possibly heretical notion that...
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The Story Behind the Dare to Dream Polio Movie Trailer
The trailer for the new documentary, Dare to Dream, How Rotary Became the Heart and Soul of Polio Eradication, is only 2 minutes and 55 seconds long. It is free and is easily streamed right from the...
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28 Dare to Dream movie sales. Only 7,472 needed to hit our goal!
Here’s a shout out to Paul in Prior Lake, USA, Denish in Gold Coast, Australia, Ruth in Ivanhoe, Australia, dwp5334 from Castro Valley, California, and sphill1617 from Alexandria, Australia, the...
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Is Rotary a Franchise Operation? A Random Conversation at the Zone Institute
RI President-Elect, Ian Riseley, who is an accountant by trade but a great guy anyway! Just back from the Zone 33-34 2016 Institute where I had the opportunity to listen in and participate in a...
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What I Won’t Miss Now That My Term is Over
7620 DG Anna Mae Kobbe and First Gentlemen, Doug Newell. The past few weeks have not been profitable for the “smart money.” First, the Brexit vote was horribly miscalculated by bookies who had the...
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Congressional Champions of Polio Eradication Reception
Dr. John Sever, the MC for the evening who is also THE Rotarian who formally recommended that Rotary undertake polio eradication as a world-wide challenge, and RI President-Elect, John Germ. If you...
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The COL Speaks….It’s Engagement in a Blowout! But Now What?
The recent Council of Legislation (COL) has emphatically and resoundingly answered General Secretary, John Hewko’s, question, “What’s more important, attendance or engagement?” The answer is now...
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ALL About Hospitality Suites
I’m just back from Chesapeake PETS where President-Elects from four Districts (7600, 7610, 7620, and 7630) gather to get trained to be a great Club President. The Multi-District PETS is a massive...
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The Best District Conference Ever
Thank you to Rotarian Darren Easton, Vice President and Creative Director of the Cyphers Agency, Annapolis, Md., for creating this amazing image. How cool is this? It’s getting on that time of the...
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“Extending” a new Rotary club…”A Dive into a Pool of Positive Energy”
You get to do a whole lot of fun stuff when you are a District Governor in Rotary. But I don’t know if you get to do anything too much more exciting than “extending” or “chartering” a new Rotary...
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UNSUBSCRIBE
No…No….Don’t unsubscribe to Ready, Fire, Aim for heavens sakes. Unsubscribe to just about everything else. I’ve decided to take a shot at reducing my email clutter. Why not join me? We learned long...
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Steve Jobs and Rotary…reading things that are not yet on the page.
I just got finished reading Walter Isaacson’s biography of Steve Jobs. The book has been sitting on my bookshelf for a couple of years, ever since I received it at our Rotary club’s gift exchange a...
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