Boundaries in Museum Work
Boundaries are good, except when they keep us apart. Can museum work manage both?
Automation and Museum Work, Part I: The Search
Automation in museum work is a search—but are we looking for efficiency or humanity?
Introverts and Extroverts in Museum Work
Is a museum workplace possible which benefits introverts, extroverts, and everyone who's both and in between?
The End of the Museum Worker Silent Majority?
The return-to-workplace push may finally expose the cost of worker silence in museums.
Links of the Week: June 17, 2021: Mindsets, revisited
Museums are full of mindsets, like most organizations. What behaviors are being excused?
Collaboration, Revisited
Will hybrid workplaces in museums bring some progress in the collaboration conundrum?
Links of the Week: June 10, 2021: Where Will You Work?
Has fear of an empty workplace supplanted promised org humanism and flexibility?
Links of the Week: May 27, 2021: Get Back …
Museums, like many institutions, are pushing for remote workers to come back to the workplace. Why … and how?
Links of the Week: May 20, 2021: Reflections of …
A couple of people—and orgs—I follow have been in a remembering mood.
TMPR: A New Acronym for Museum Workers (Part 1: Time)
The first in a series of four posts about Time, Money, People, and Resources in museum work and in museum workers' lives.
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.
Last Exit to Interview
Can museums do better with exit interviews? An immodest proposal.
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.)