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If It Ain’t Broke….Break It!
NOTE: Today’s post was supposed to be about the recent District 7620 District Conference. Unfortunately Ready, Fire, Aim editorial deadlines must be met so the Conference blog will be up next week...
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It’s Time to Install our New Club Presidents
I thought I would write about installing new club leaders this morning, and then I remembered that more than a year ago I wrote a RFA post about installing new club members. And guess what? The...
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Lunar Rainbow at Iguazzu Falls
If you happen to travel to Brazil you should definitely take a few days to check out Iguazzu Falls. What a breathtakingly beautiful place. If you are lucky enough to stay at the Hotel das Cataratas,...
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I mean this in the nicest way…but YOU’RE FIRED!
I have been privileged to go around the District over the past two weeks in order to fire current Club Presidents. It’s not that they did a bad job or anything like that, and I’m sure they didn’t...
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Rotary Peace Centers – A “Stellar” Program of the Rotary Foundation
Unless you are on the District Leadership Team you don’t get to attend Council of Governors (COG) meetings. The COG is comprised of District 7620’s Past District Governors. Four times each year the...
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RI President Ravi answers the question about the Rotary Chicken (new members)...
RI President KR “Ravi” Ravindran live tweeting a picture of his audience at the RYLA NA Conference in Washington, DC. I was privileged to host RI President Ravi Ravindran and his wife, Vanathy, for...
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The Elephant in the Room, A Letter about Rotary Engagement
The topic of Rotary Engagement versus Rotary Attendance seems to be at the top of everyone’s list of Rotary conversations of late. Last week’s RFA post, The Rotary Chicken and the Rotary Egg, took on...
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The Toughest Role Play in PETS Training – Engagement Part III
Back when dinosaurs walked the earth I used to serve the District by training club President- Elects. My thinking for the decade that I volunteered to do it was that Rotary Club Presidents have...
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ROTARY S.W.O.T. Analysis in District 7620
Ask any Past District Governor (as I have) about the best part of being a DG, and they will, without exception, talk about how great it is to visit the Rotary clubs in their District. Now that I’ve...
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The Magic of Thinking Big in Rotary
When asked, “why doesn’t Rotary spend more money on PR?”, RI President Ravi Ravindran responded with the easily predictable answer, “We don’t have the money to do a massive media campaign.” But what...
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14 Steps to an AMAZING Community Service Project
61. The number of Official DG visits that this DG has completed. Since it is also the number of clubs in District 7620, it means that I’m DONE. Finished. Toast. Complete. Nothing left to do but...
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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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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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“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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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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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 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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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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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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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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