Introverts and Extroverts in Museum Work

Is a museum workplace possible which benefits introverts, extroverts, and everyone who's both and in between?

The End of the Museum Worker Silent Majority?

The return-to-workplace push may finally expose the cost of worker silence in museums.

Links of the Week: June 17, 2021: Mindsets, revisited

Museums are full of mindsets, like most organizations. What behaviors are being excused?

Collaboration, Revisited

Will hybrid workplaces in museums bring some progress in the collaboration conundrum?

Links of the Week: June 10, 2021: Where Will You Work?

Has fear of an empty workplace supplanted promised org humanism and flexibility?

Links of the Week: May 27, 2021: Get Back …

Museums, like many institutions, are pushing for remote workers to come back to the workplace. Why … and how?

Links of the Week: May 20, 2021: Reflections of …

A couple of people—and orgs—I follow have been in a remembering mood.

Links of the Week: May 13, 2021: Ace off Base

What does the internal turmoil at a small software company have to do with museum org culture? Read on.

TMPR: A New Acronym for Museum Workers (Part 1: Time)

The first in a series of four posts about Time, Money, People, and Resources in museum work and in museum workers' lives.

Museum Org Culture Is Causing a Mental Health Crisis

Museums make mental health resources available to workers but ignore how their own org culture contributes to the problem.

Last Exit to Interview

Can museums do better with exit interviews? An immodest proposal.

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.

Against the Museum Smartocracy

Museums aren't just meritocracies. They are organizations that identify with smarts above all else. (Yes, even money.)

Do Museum Workers Need a Demon of Their Own?

Is a deal with sinister forces necessary for museum people to get their work done?

Museum Human's Top Five Themes of 2020

What throughlines did Museum Human's posts traverse over the course of the year?