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.
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.
Do Museum Workers Need a Demon of Their Own?
Is a deal with sinister forces necessary for museum people to get their work done?
The Museum Field's Twin Obsessions with Scarcity and Growth
Museums are addicted to institutional growth but precarity for their people.
The Burnout Dilemma
Is burnout in the museum field something particular to the sector, or just another expression of the rotten Matrix? And which do we tackle first?