In response to yesterday’s entry about airing our mistakes as well as our successes, weblog reader Tiffany Wilhelm forwarded this link to Ben Cameron’s latest editorial in American Theater. Titled ‘The Anti-Annual Report,’ the reflection on Theater Communications Group’s past year does all the things I felt were lacking in such public discussions. It highlights […]
Archives for December 2003
What about discussing ‘worst practices’?
A story on NPR yesterday discussed current research on medical training, and specifically the formalized exploration of errors in medical practice (you can find the audio stream here). The intro to the story, and the report itself, were oddly resonant with issues in the management of arts and culture. Said the intro: It’s a basic […]
Where it rains, it pays
Columnist Neal Peirce addresses the issue of cities and population growth in a recent column. According to one report (‘The Changing Dynamics of Urban America’ by Robert Weissbourd and Christopher Berry, available for download here), a traditional measure of city success is no longer valid. Quoth the report: For the first time in modern American […]
What, exactly, are we sustaining?
An interesting sidebar from the Discovery Channel web site suggests that the human race is too big to be sustainable. According to the researchers’ algorithm, there are 1000 times too many humans, as compared to a representative sample of other species (here’s a groovy graphic that says so). Said report co-author Charles Fowler: “It is […]