Much of the discussion at the June Getty Leadership Institute/National Arts Strategies convening (introduced in my last post) was focused on the ‘gulf’ between nonprofit and commercial/for-profit creative endeavor. Thankfully, we (mostly) moved beyond the usual assumptions that sandbag most such conversations: Nonprofits make art / For-profits make entertainment Nonprofits serve vision and mission / […]
Archives for August 2004
GETTY: Extending a conversation
This June, I was one of twenty-three participants in a leadership roundtable on a particularly compelling and complex topic. Co-sponsored by the Getty Leadership Institute and National Arts Strategies, and held at the Getty Center in Los Angeles, the convening brought together fascinating folks from the nonprofit and for-profit side of cultural enterprise to search […]
More than half the pie
By 2010, according to the U.S. Census folks, about 50.8% of the U.S. population will be female. The majority of those women will be between 20 and 44 (33%) and 45 to 64 (26%). Yet most smart marketers are realizing that 50 percent can be much more than half. There are indications everywhere that women […]
Another take on the org. chart
I’ve written before about the problems of traditional organizational charts. They are collective fictions, really, of how an organization should behave rather than how it does. Earlier, I offered network mapping as one odd alternative. But there’s another that’s less complex and perhaps more fun: the genogram. Genograms are used by family therapists, social workers, […]
Of costs and control
Two large performing arts projects dealt publicly with costs last week, but with dramatically different public buzz. The Miami-Dade Performing Arts Center, 20 months late in its construction and $67.7 million over budget, got grudging approval to move forward (username: ajreader@artsjournal.com, password: access) from the county commissioners. While Madison, Wisconsin’s, Overture Center for the Arts […]