Links of the Week: March 8, 2024: We Who (or Don't) ABIDE

Taking on the backlash against respect and opportunity for all people in workplaces will take more than a couple of all-staff mandates.

Tough Love for the DEI Industry: A Review of DEI Deconstructed

A 2022 book has a damning analysis of why DEI hasn't worked so far—and how understanding org culture better is the first step to real change.

Links of the Week: March 1, 2024: Futures and Presents, Perfect and Imperfect

Speculative fiction only works if we understand our past and present.

Introducing the Museum in the Future Project

Museum Human launches a new short speculative fiction series about museums in the future.

Links of the Week: February 23, 2024: Let Us List the Ways

What is the org culture that we've supposedly lost by remote and hybrid work, anyway?

The Lonely Workplace Paradox

Why can't defenders of the workplace get over how often they're empty?

Links of the Week: February 16, 2024: AI Time, Time for AI?

There's a lot that museums and workers should be doing with and about AI—and most of it will be unknown until workers discover it.

Will the Challenge of AI Inspire Museums and Workers to Innovate Together? An Interview with Deb Howes

How do museums navigate the AI landscape between the rock of institutional/staff obsolescence and the hard place of private profiteering?

Links of the Week: February 9, 2024: Leaders All the Way Down?

Leadership is a practice, not a set of positions. How are museums practicing their leadership?

The View from Up There: a Review of The Future of the Museum: 28 Dialogues by András Szántó

A 2020 leader-focused book on the future of museums is more than meets the eye.

Links of the Week: February 2, 2024: Can't Pass on the Future

Museums and organizations haven't figured out the future of worker well-being. Is it beyond their organizational ability?

The Well-Being Dilemma for Museum Workers

Do museum workers need to take charge of their own well-being—and that of their institutions?

Links of the Week: January 26, 2024: Finding Forward

Can museums and their workers move in the same direction at the same time?

What Do Museums Need to Do to Move Forward for Their Workers?

Museums being honest know that equity, fairness, and justice are organizational problems. Are they avoiding the necessary solutions?

Links of the Week: January 19, 2024: Museum Workers Come in from the Cold?

What is to be done if the "fall" of museum work is just a part of a greater malaise?