In the early 1980s, the Texas State Department of Transportation was spending over $20 million a year picking up highway litter. After researching the situation, they found that most people littering were blue-collar men in pickup trucks throwing bottles and cans out...
I’ve recently had a few conversations with museum leaders concerning team decision making struggles. With the world changing at breakneck speed, we are all tasks with starting new initiatives, changing existing programs, and in some cases, doing away with...
Creating Life-Changing Digital Programs for Your Museum – 15 Minutes Earlier this month, I gave a 15-minute talk at the SAQA Fiber Art Symposium 2020. The title of the presentation was “Creating Life Changing Digital Programs for Your Museum.” In the presentation, I...
As I speak with other museum professionals, I’m seeing a growing number of examples illustrating that perhaps the biggest COVID-19 challenge may not be outside forces, but rather our perceptions of what these forces mean. Many articles discuss the importance of...
I joined a few other esteemed museum leaders for a discussion on the topic, “Museum Responses to COVID-19” on the Think Humanities podcast by the Kentucky Humanities (kyhumanities.org). You can listen to the podcast here...
It’s easy to allow significant decisions to weigh us down. One museum leader I spoke with described it as decision paralysis. He said, “I sit at my desk and think through things for hours, but don’t feel like I make any progress. It just consumes...
