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.)

So, What Do You Think?

This week, instead of the usual post, I'm hoping to hear from you. Please take a few minutes to fill out this survey about Museum Human's content and format and get a free copy of my book on surviving and thriving in a change environment.

Do Museum Workers Need a Demon of Their Own?

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

What a Recent Symposium Says about Museum Democracy

Is it time for a museum-field symposium for the rest of us?

Are Museums Really Ready for Audience Research?

Museums' audience research efforts are undermined by troubling organizational trends.