Deaccessioning and Museum Organizational Culture
What does the deaccessioning controversy reveal about the place of museum workers in the organization?
Robert J Weisberg
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.
Links of the Week: March 23, 2021: Are U Capable?
This week Museum Human looks at capabilities (not just skills). Which matter more for a museum?
Thoughts on a Few Months of Not Tweeting
I became a lurker on my only social media platform. Here are some lessons I learned about busyness.
Links of the Week, March 16, 2021: This One's Optimistic
This week's links include optimistic leaders, maintaining cultures in hybrid workplaces, WFH burnout, and a tech titan reinventing the intranet.
Antiracism and Museum Organizational Culture
Antiracism isn't simply an action plan. For museums, that means rebuilding their own structure and culture into something new.
Links of the Week for March 9, 2021: The Return
A old feature returns to Museum Human …
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.)