A Year of Shattered Expectations I started writing a year-end blog post several times, but it felt weird and delusional, like I was ignoring the approaching giant planet ready to destroy the Earth.
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?
We've Met the E-Mail Problem, and It is Us Yes, we have been talking about email killing workplace productivity for THIS long …