How Can Different Groups in the Museum Agree on Impact?

Museums—and their departments and workers—are increasingly concerned about impact beyond the institution. But can museums have impact externally when they may not agree on just what it means—or how to get there—internally?

Links of the Week: March 8, 2024: We Who (or Don't) ABIDE

Taking on the backlash against respect and opportunity for all people in workplaces will take more than a couple of all-staff mandates.

Tough Love for the DEI Industry: A Review of DEI Deconstructed

A 2022 book has a damning analysis of why DEI hasn't worked so far—and how understanding org culture better is the first step to real change.

Links of the Week: February 9, 2024: Leaders All the Way Down?

Leadership is a practice, not a set of positions. How are museums practicing their leadership?

Links of the Week: January 26, 2024: Finding Forward

Can museums and their workers move in the same direction at the same time?

Links of the Week: August 4, 2023: The Belonging Museum

Adding belonging to DEIA is a first step, but transformation runs deeper.

Diversity, Inclusion, and Belonging "after" Affirmative Action

Adding Belonging to DEIA Doesn't Change Museums' Challenge to Transform.

Links of the Week: April 21, 2023: Self Meet Self

Selves at work are complicated—and they should be. Can we deal?

Links of the Week: March 31, 2023: Museums Keep On Keeping On?

Museums are busier figuring out their future, but do they understand their present?

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.

Links of the Week: March 17, 2023: The Brittle

This week's links include the polycrisis, transparency, care vs fascism, and what museums should be doing about it all.

Links of the Week: February 24, 2023: Getting Back to Museums

Museums and their workers have a world full of problems to deal with.

Links of the Week: July 15, 2022: (Northern) Summer Grab Bag

Here are some links on mission creep, DEIA, crypto, and burnout.

Links of the Week: July 8, 2021: The Race Still to Run

Are museums really treating racism in the field as a problem requiring transformation?

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.