Links of the Week: November 26, 2024: Looking Back to Look Ahead, Post-Election Edition

What's keeping us from learning anything from recent events?

Do Museums Need to Go Bigger Than Just Minimally Viable?

Is there such a thing as too many MVPs?

The Mindset to Matter: A Review of Why Museums Matter and Videogames and the Public Museum

Are museum leaders and workers speaking languages too different for institutions to thrive?

Links of the Week: December 1, 2023: We Can't Grow Our Way Out of This

Climate and societal collapse need to be viewed as a beginning, not an end.

Complexity, Simplicity, and Collapse, Part 1: A Review of Museums and Societal Collapse

A short book with a simple message brings in much about a complex world.

Links of the Week: November 17, 2023: Everything Everywhere

After a virtual conference considered the Future of Museums, can we find common ground between civics, tech, and worker wellbeing?

Can Museums Prioritize Civics, Wellbeing, and Technology All at Once?

A brief virtual conference made a game attempt to link civics, in a partisan age, staff wellbeing, and technology.

Asking Museums and Workers Why, What, and for Whom? An Interview with Robert R. (Bob) Janes

A longtime museum leader, scholar, and activist says that it's time for museums and their workers to ask hard questions of themselves and their institutions.

Making Sustainability Sustainable for Museums: an Interview with Caitlin Southwick

Sustainability for museums is a cross-disciplinary mindset.

The War of All Against All: Review of The Persuaders, part 2

The callout culture around callout culture only feeds into the War of All Against All.

Are We Listening? Review of The Persuaders, Part 1

A new book calls out callout culture, but does it practice the deep listening it advocates?

Links of the Week: July 29, 2022: Going Deep

When a story is ending, what needs to changeā€”the story or the storytellers?

Links of the Week: July 22, 2022: What Vibrations?

Some leaders think the Great Resignation is caused by bad vibes. It's more than that.

The Dawn of a New Org Culture?

More thoughts about The Dawn of Everything and lessons it holds for museum org culture

Links of the Week: February 18, 2022: Org Culture War

The org culture war in museums isn't just new vs old, but changing into the new or changing back into the old.