A tip of the hat and a note of thanks to Peter F. Drucker, who passed away last week, at age 95. Drucker was considered by many to be the father of modern management, and was most certainly among the more persistent voices bringing a human and social perspective to the profit-making world. Beyond that, […]
Archives for 2005
Playing a positive role in innovation
Tom Kelley of the famous IDEO design firm is clearly fed up with at least one role-playing game used in organizations: the devil’s advocate. Invoking that role, he says, instantly absolves the invoker of any personal accountability for their criticism (it’s not me criticising that idea, I’m just speaking on behalf of Satan). The resulting […]
Constructing our public self
Three fascinating art/sociology projects explore how people construct their ”public” self through the astoundingly popular Flikr photo-sharing web site. The two German design students suggest that Flikr provides a public platform for the intentional construction of personal identity through photographs. Says the web page: This is a series of three projects investigating what constitutes the […]
You be the editor
Today’s post is just a pointer to another discussion unfolding on the Internet. My weblog neighbor Greg Sandow is writing a book ”out loud” — that is, he’s posting sections of what will become a book, and asking the world to respond, argue, enhance, edit, and engage with that process. If you have any interest […]
Measuring the creative community
One of the problems in measuring the health of any community’s cultural ecology is that you first have to determine what a healthy cultural ecology looks like. If you don’t have an ideal state in mind, you end up with random and irrelevant measures (dollars spent by nonprofits, dinners bought by patrons, room nights in […]
Greetings from Ottawa!
Having a wonderful time at the CAPACOA conference in Ottawa. Wish you were here. Please send money and duty-free liquor. As promised to my wonderful audience this morning, here’s the text of my keynote address delivered fresh and piping hot: [ If Culture Counts, How Do We Count It? ]
If Culture Counts, How Do We Count It?
A keynote address to the Canadian Arts Presenters Association (CAPACOA) on November 5, 2005, in Ottawa, Ontario.
Off to Ottawa
I’m off to Ottawa to speak to the good folks at CAPACOA for their conference, Culture Counts: Measuring the Value of the Arts. As always, I’ll post my keynote to this weblog shortly after I deliver it. Hope to see some of you there!
Tell your donors now (if you haven’t already)!
The Chronicle of Philanthropy outlines the unique tax benefits available to donors if they give to any nonprofit before the end of the year. Says the article: President Bush last month signed into law a measure that allows donors to write off up to 100 percent of their income for cash donations they made from […]
What do you really need to know to connect?
Mark Swed of the LA Times poses some great questions in his recent Critic’s Notebook. The core of the issue is this: how much do we really need to know about an art work to connect with it? Says he: Do you understand a piece of music better if you know its secrets, or does […]
