Mega-consulting firm McKinsey & Company thinks a lot about trends in the workforce, and how to manage those trends. Their most recent obsession seems to be ”tacit interactions,” and the shift of the U.S. job market in that direction. ”Tacit” interactions are complex and ambigous, requiring high levels of judgment and problem-solving. Workers involved in […]
Archives for September 2006
Painting with a broader corporate palette
There’s increasing evidence that the mission-driven world has focused a bit too obsessively (or myopically) on a single organizational form: the tax-exempt, 501(c)3 nonprofit corporation. It was a logical place to go, after all — if your goals are not defined by profit but by other motives, you should structure yourself as a nonprofit…right? Problem […]
One more way to map your world
If you were looking for another perspective on Manhattan, the folks at Gawker have just the map for you. Their new subway map tracks the various smells visitors are finding in each subway stop — from the sublime to the stinky. Why, exactly, would you want to know that the 14th Street and 6th/7th Avenue […]
Only half an argument
During my time in Anchorage with the leaders of state arts agencies, the issue of ”public value” was still very much in play. Many state arts agencies had done extensive rethinking and planning around the public values they promote. And new communications strategies and publications were spreading this new word to legislators and constituents. But […]
Wish I were here
I had an engaging but exhausting day here in Anchorage, chatting with the leadership members of the National Assembly of State Arts Agencies (NASAA), an association of state arts agency executive directors, board members, and deputy directors. I delivered the keynote to the group yesterday morning, and facilitated a workshop in the afternoon on the […]
Three (short) detours back to public value
A keynote to the National Assembly of State Arts Agencies leadership institute in September 2006.
A connector’s connector
My friend and colleague, Doug McLennan, is celebrating the seventh anniversary of ArtsJournal.com today. In a move I’ve come to expect from him, he’s celebrating that milestone by reaching even farther and working even more. Beyond his daily filtering of hundreds of articles on arts and culture, he’s now writing his own blog, Diacritical. In […]
Off to Alaska
I’m off to Anchorage next week to speak to the National Assembly of State Arts Agencies Leadership Institute, a collection of some 100+ board members, executive directors, and deputy directors of state arts agencies. I’ll try to post my keynote address shortly after I deliver it on Tuesday (okay, give me until Wednesday). I’m also […]
Fan Taylor’s code of excellence
Through my work here in Madison, I’ve had the great honor and pleasure of getting to know Fan Taylor — a formative force in the creation of the master’s program in Arts Administration I direct in the School of Business, and in defining and developing the professional field of arts presenting. She’s an icon among […]
Live vs. mediated
Those interested in brain science and its value in exploring the cultural experience probably already know Daniel Levitin and his work at the Levitin Laboratory for Music, Perception, Cognition, and Expertise (there’s a Boston Globe article on him here). But those with a specific curiosity about the difference between live performance experience and mediated experience […]