Museum Human

Organizational culture

Interview

"This Is a Culture and Team We Want to Create": An Interview with Andrea Ledesma

Sometimes asking a lot of questions is more important than always having the answers.

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Robert J Weisberg

• 24 min read
Artificial Intelligence

With AI, to Throwdown™ or Not Throwdown™ is the Question

AI either has tons of use cases or is all hype. Can museums figure out which—or both—and learn something more profound about their organizations?

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Robert J Weisberg

• 10 min read
Links of the Week

Links of the Week: July 12, 2024: The Workplace Evolution

Are we being honest about museum org culture problems?

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Robert J Weisberg

• 11 min read
Reading List

A Review of Bootstrapped and a Webinar on Worker Self-Directed Nonprofits

Organizations too often believe the twin myths of individual self-reliance and worker disempowerment.

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Robert J Weisberg

• 9 min read
Links of the Week

Links of the Week: June 28, 2024: Project Manage This

Museums are ignoring the need for skills and culture as they rush towards a future they define in strategic plans.

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Robert J Weisberg

• 10 min read
Links of the Week

Links of the Week: June 21, 2024: Trust Busting or Trust Building?

Museums can't preach trust in society without enacting it internally.

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Robert J Weisberg

• 12 min read
Trust

The Trust Problem for Museums Doesn't Start with the Public

Museums say they're among the most trusted institutions in society. What happens when that isn't the case internally?

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Robert J Weisberg

• 13 min read
Links of the Week

Links of the Week: June 7, 2024: Days at the Museum

Museums can't find the answers unless they widen their view of who gets to ask the questions.

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Robert J Weisberg

• 6 min read
Museums

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?

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Robert J Weisberg

• 11 min read
Museum Human

Hustle Culture, Revisited, part 2: What I've Learned about Museums from Making Museum Human

What have I learned about the museum field from eight years of making Museum Human?

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Robert J Weisberg

• 9 min read
Links of the Week

Links of the Week: May 3, 2024: Deep Impact

Impact is what museums do and alignment is how they do it.

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Robert J Weisberg

• 7 min read
Impact

How Can Different Groups in the Museum Agree on Impact?

Museums—and their departments and workers—are increasingly concerned about impact beyond the institution. But can museums have impact externally when they may not agree on just what it means—or how to get there—internally?

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Robert J Weisberg

• 7 min read
Links of the Week

Links of the Week: April 19, 2024: The Hustle Does You

Could the motto of our writing now be "think big and write small"?

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Robert J Weisberg

• 8 min read
Links of the Week

Links of the Week: April 12, 2024: Innovation Station

Innovation is a practice, which is part of the problem but all of the opportunity.

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Robert J Weisberg

• 9 min read
Maps

How to Start Your Own Organizational Map

Organizational mapping is a practice that everyone should practice.

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Robert J Weisberg

• 7 min read