Hey, Cultural Sector, Agile This
We overuse the term Agile in the organizational lexicon. A recent workshop explored a people-centered path to agile workplaces in the cultural sector.
Museums and the Paradox of Learning
Museums, teach your people well … Learning must be a key supporting mindset of a cultural sector workplace.
Who Decides Who Gets to "Fix" Tech?
Technologists, especially some who were responsible for the rise of surveillance capitalist behemoths, are declaring technology broken and proposing humanist solutions. What could be wrong with that? And what does this mean for museums?
How Zero is Your Inbox?
And, ultimately, who cares? The problem with email isn't the size of your inbox but the culture of scarcity in our workplaces.
Museum Human: A (Re-)Introduction
I'm changing this site's title from my name to something more … human. Call it a first exercise in de-centering.
One peer mentoring door closes, but others are already open …
After two years, the #MCNergy peer mentoring sessions at the Museum Computer Network's annual conference are ending, and that's a good thing.
We Made a Book!
Two of us self-styled change agents wrote a book about how to deal with change, and then how to deal yourself in.
Is MCN now the Museum Change Network?
The Museum Computer Network 2017 conference was heavy on change, leadership, and navigating the org chart. Have we entered a "post-digital" era of "always be changing" in museum technology?
Can the Museum Workplace Be More Human?
Two intense, long, emotional days at the personal-authenticity-and-development end of the organizational culture spectrum.
#MCNergy: Your solution to the post-conference blahs
Addressing one of the most persistent problems with any conference—that sinking feeling when all those great, exciting ideas you have during the conference dissipate after you've returned to work.
Can Museums Listen to Responsiveness?
Museums are paying more attention to their workplace practices. Can "responsiveness" succeed where "employee engagement" hasn't?
The Connection of Museums, Technology, and Entrepreneurship
Though Samantha is guiding the creation of amazing gallery experiences and I’m obsessing on organizational change from within museums, it turned out that we had a lot of concerns in common.
Autumn is Coming
Between my conference workand the non-stop slow apocalypse we find ourselves in, it never felt like the right time to write about museums as workplaces or museums and organizational culture.
Games, Digital Pubs, and Voices: an Interview with Susan Edwards of the Hammer Museum
So many of us in the museum technology field are a multitude of different experiences and backgrounds. Susan Edwards fits that to a T.