Links of the Week: March 30, 2021: Trust, Who Do You …
Organizational trust in museums doesn't just happen. It takes a lot of work—and a desire to be trusted.
Busyness, Revisited
The cult of busyness is the museum field's daily expression of weaponized and exploited time.
Links of the Week: March 23, 2021: Are U Capable?
This week Museum Human looks at capabilities (not just skills). Which matter more for a museum?
Links of the Week, March 16, 2021: This One's Optimistic
This week's links include optimistic leaders, maintaining cultures in hybrid workplaces, WFH burnout, and a tech titan reinventing the intranet.
Links of the Week for March 9, 2021: The Return
A old feature returns to Museum Human …
How to Make Museum Work Flexible, not Fauxible
Flexible work is not just schedules and policies. It's roles, skills, mindsets, and more. Otherwise it's fake flexibility: fauxibility.
Against the Museum Smartocracy
Museums aren't just meritocracies. They are organizations that identify with smarts above all else. (Yes, even money.)
So, What Do You Think?
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Do Museum Workers Need a Demon of Their Own?
Is a deal with sinister forces necessary for museum people to get their work done?
What a Recent Symposium Says about Museum Democracy
Is it time for a museum-field symposium for the rest of us?
Are Museums Really Ready for Audience Research?
Museums' audience research efforts are undermined by troubling organizational trends.
Museum Human's Top Five Themes of 2020
What throughlines did Museum Human's posts traverse over the course of the year?
Museum Human's Top 10 Posts of 2020
Looking over the year that was, in Museum Human posts …