Are You a Game Changer?

The "New and Improved" NAR keeps coming up with bigger and better ideas.

Yesterday at the 2009 Leadership Summit they announced the "Game Changers Challenge".

In 1906 professional football was on the edge of extinction. Nine player had died the previous season, and audiences were dwindling to nothing. League owners got together and decided they needed a game changer to guarantee their survival. They invented the forward pass.

In 1956 professional basketball was so boring that no one would go. Games were often decided by scores of 20-17...or less. The owners got together and decided they needed a game changer. They created the 24 second shot clock.

NAR CEO Dale Stinton described NAR as "the organization that is redefining real estate in America. That same organization is now asking its members to help us identify our game changers. With more than 1.2 mil members nationwide, we've got lots of ideas. Until now, we just didn't have the resources to move them along.

REALTOR® associations staff and REALTORS® are invited to submit big, bold ideas that will change the course of how REALTOR® associations work.

We are being asked for a radical -- but implementable -- idea for evaluation by our panel of experts introduced at the Leadership Summit before the competition closes Oct. 1.

The best idea(s) will be completely funded by NAR for development.

Those selected will be announced at the Leadership Luncheon in San Diego. The game changing results of these innovative development(s) will be revealed at NAR's Midyear Meetings in May 2010. This is an extraordinary opportunity for uniquely innovative models of association management to be developed. President-Elect Paulson has challenged the ACAR Board and Staff to come up with a game changer for submission. I invite you to send any ideas you might have...or...would you like to sit down and brainstorm some wild blue sky ideas with us?

What do you say? Are you a game changer?