AOC, Rock Stars, and Leaderless Movements in Museum Orgs
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is a star, but the rock star system isn't helping politics—or museums.
Links of the Week: February 18, 2022: Org Culture War
The org culture war in museums isn't just new vs old, but changing into the new or changing back into the old.
Links of the Week: February 11, 2022: Let This Be Your Last Fake News
All the news that isn't can come from anywhere.
Study Hall: The Org Culture of Self-Examination in Museums
Museum-field studies are interesting, but does institutional org culture prevent real learning?
Museum Disruption Revisited (and Dismantling Visited)
Can museum workers really down bring their own system?
What Is "Org Culture" in Museums, Anyway?
Defining organizational culture in cultural organizations can be difficult, which is both its challenge and its potential.
What Kind of Museum Leaders Do We Want?
Do museums need different leaders or different ideas about museum leadership?
TMPR for Museum Workers, Part 4: Resources
This four-part series ends with Resources—can museums move past scarcity to abundance for their workers and orgs?
Museum Org Culture Is Causing a Mental Health Crisis
Museums make mental health resources available to workers but ignore how their own org culture contributes to the problem.
Museums Can't End Projects Without a Map
Museums have no problem starting new work. Why is ending old work so difficult to get right?
Last Exit to Interview
Can museums do better with exit interviews? An immodest proposal.
Deaccessioning and Museum Organizational Culture
What does the deaccessioning controversy reveal about the place of museum workers in the organization?
Busyness, Revisited
The cult of busyness is the museum field's daily expression of weaponized and exploited time.
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.