Happy Friday! I’m psyched for the weekend — I have an extremely relaxing one planned and am looking forward to catching up on some sleep. I hope everyone else is looking forward to their weekends equally as much! Without further ado, I present my five favorite association management-themed blog posts from this week.

1. Acronym’s newest blogger, Joe Rominiecki, wrote a great piece wondering if it’s possible to start over. Using the American health care system as a metaphor, Joe wondered if it’s possible to change an association’s governance model. Let’s get rid of the affliction known as “that’s the way we’ve always done it”-itis!

2. Over at SmartBlog Insights, Deirdre Reid wrote about the need for associations to shift their focus from members to members’ customers. But are we digging deeper to look at the changes affecting our members’ customers or clients?, she asks. Deirdre takes a look at associations’ revenue models and how this could benefit them.

3. Debra Helwig wrote about something I think a lot of us can relate to: the need for speed. The downsides of our fast-paced digital world can lead to mistakes — and they’re not always small ones. Debra writes, “we do dumb stuff … we’re inadequately grateful … and we spill the beans.” Silence your inner speed demon and get intentional. I plan to this weekend.

4. Jeff Hurt returned from his association’s 21st annual conference, which he planned, with 12 key takeaways. Some good reminders: WiFi access is as necessary as water nowadays, green is in and spending dollars on content and connecting people equals success. Great lessons here.

5. And the association blogosphere was buzzing this week with Maddie Grant’s Xer meme. I wrote my response earlier this week and shared some others there as well, but here’s one more, this time from Kevin Holland. Kevin points out that every generation has, at some point or another, felt as if their ideals and values had fallen by the wayside.