Museums as Workplace Communities—a Guest Post by Rebecca Shulman
How can workplaces function when employees are recovering from recent COVID trauma?
Links of the Week: March 22, 2024: A Map to Buried Treasure?
Half of any good map is the process of making your own.
Links of the Week: March 15, 2024: The Ides of Change
Change isn't as simple as one event.
The Lonely Workplace Paradox
Why can't defenders of the workplace get over how often they're empty?
The Well-Being Dilemma for Museum Workers
Do museum workers need to take charge of their own well-being—and that of their institutions?
Is the Fall of the Museum Workplace a Matter of Time?
Is 2024 the year that museum work stops making sense, for good?
Links of the Week: January 12, 2024: Blood in the System
Discussions about technology are about so much more than machines.
Complexity, Simplicity, and Collapse, Part 3: You Are Here
Museums use hierarchy to deal with complexity, but confronting collapse requires something else.
Links of the Week: September 8, 2023: Fall Term Terminology
Innovation, leadership, and engagement need to be grounded in workplace reality in order to really improve.
Why Can't We Ever Get Meetings Right?
How we handle meetings, is about our organization, our practices, our workloads, and our time for trust.
Links of the Week: June 2, 2023: Getting Worked Up About AI
Who will get to decide how AI gets used in museum work?
Everything Counts when Moving Teams Beyond Burnout: a Chat with Jen Holmes
Leading better teams is a constant process—and the most rewarding workplace practice.
Links of the Week: February 17, 2023: Love Your Job or Else
We're told to find joy in our work. But what if we just need to face reality?
The Great/Quiet/Remote Workplace Feedback Loop
The Great Resignation and quiet quitting feed on each other. It all starts with remote/hybrid work practices.