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Welcome to Monday! Big Idea month continues, with three new posts:

- Maggie McGary considers the big idea "What if associations required every staffer to work at another association for three days?" Maggie argues, "I think that having the experience of working at a number of different associations is critical to truly understanding the underlying principles of association leadership," and she has three good reasons why.

- Maddie Grant looks at the idea "What if association staff weren't permitted to use email internally?" In fact, she takes it even further and assumes that there's no external email either. Be sure to check out Maddie's thoughts on what could result (and Jamie Notter's comment on a company that actually did this!).

- In a follow-up to his earlier post on "What if associations promoted all of the lowest-ranking staffers to VPs for a week?", Bruce Hammond finds a resource that speaks to the idea of empowering staff at lower levels as an engine for innovation.