Mindfulness is a Terrible Thing for Museums to Waste
Workplaces are only getting busier. How do museum workers find time to think?
Keeping Ourselves Real in Our Museum Work
The workplace psychology movement of the week is a call for authenticity. Do museums have a particular office honesty problem?
Call It The Human League: Museum Computer Network 2016
MCN2016 was a great, positive, uplifting conference, and it happened—and election night doesn't change that. A commitment to real, impactful change was never more important.
What We Talk about When We Talk about Silos
It turned out that our collective war on silos was a war on other people's silos.
Can Museums be "Developmental Organizations"?: An interview with Dara Blumenthal
Dara Blumenthal isn't just diagnosing process problems in today's workplaces. She discusses the very way in which people are viewed—and view themselves—at work and in society.
Just what are we trying to "disrupt" anyway?
So we're all supposed to disrupt something, that much is clear. Just what that thing is, isn't clear, but it's not supposed to matter. And what does this mean for museums?
How much organizational risk can a museum take?
We all want our museums to be more innovative, free-flowing, unstructured … right?
Links of the Week (4/6/16)
Those of us in nonprofits and/or cultural institutions groan/roll eyes at the idea of a "personal brand," but what's so wrong about having an idea of yourself and where you want to be?
Links of the Week (3/30/16)
Links from the week of March 30, 2016, featuring articles on community, transparency, and empathy.
Just How Different a Workplace is a Museum?
Can evolving workplace practices in the business world be applied to mission-driven non-profits like museums?
Discuss: Collaboration and Silos (3/25/16)
Collaborating our way out of workplace silos is all the rage … or is it? What are some responses to the collaboration conundrum?
Links of the Week (3/23/16)
The New York Times tells us that art books are surviving in a digital world. Whew! Also, jetpacks, leisure, and teamwork.
Discuss: Employee Happiness (3/18/16)
There are plenty of reasons workers can't be happy (such as, oh, email), but you can't say companies aren't trying. Well, you can, but …