"Who's Defensive? You're Defensive!" Accountability in Museum Work
When all around is collapsing, internal mistrust can easily turn into defensiveness.
Links of the Week: May 5, 2023: The Mismatch Game
We're hired as matches for our teams, but mismatches are more common in our orgs.
Everything Counts when Moving Teams Beyond Burnout: a Chat with Jen Holmes
Leading better teams is a constant process—and the most rewarding workplace practice.
Shrug Culture: Innovation, Help, and Sharing in Museums
All too often, one worker's innovation is another worker's meh.
Decision-Making Often Goes Wrong Before It Even Begins
Distributed decision-making is the real test of progressive workplaces.
Links of the Week: March 24, 2023: What It All Means
Turns out that searching for the meaning of all things requires a looser org structure than you'd expect.
Museums and the X-day Workweek
A shorter workweek is under discussion, but are orgs still desperately avoiding real flexibility?
Can Emergent Skills Save the Museum Sector? A chat with Dr. Lauren Vargas
Museums say they want better community relationships but need better emergent skills first.
Can Museums Respond to the Remote/Hybrid Challenge?
If resigning is Great and quitting is Quiet, what does that make remote and hybrid work?
What I've Been Reading, Watching, and Listening to Lately
These media have a lot of messages
Links of the Week: January 6, 2023: R U (Still) Masking?
The new year starts with a lot of links but a lot less masking …
Links of the Week: August 31, 2022: The System
Considering their educational pedigrees, museum workers aren't used to thinking of their institutions as systems.
Links of the Week: August 26, 2022: More on the Long View
Taking a long view without centering humanity is no view at all.