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Some disassembly required
The nonprofit arts organization was assembled from available parts. It's no surprise that some of them don't quite fit.
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The Fundraising Trinity
In growing and sustaining your donor list, the three essential indicators (in order) are Connection, Concern, Capacity.
Four conversations with uncertainty
Each of us has a preferred way of knowing what to do when we don't know. Ichak Adizes' framework can help us recognize our conversational style when…
New look, new location
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Best practice is the worst
Best practices suggest that doing the same thing will work in different contexts. That's often a form of malpractice.
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Beauty and the balance sheet
The balance sheet is an essential and eternal puzzle for any nonprofit arts organization.
April 2023
Three paths to action in Arts Management
What, exactly, is blocking productive action for you or your team? And how might you clear the way?
Hosting, guesting, and ghosting in Arts Management
Arts managers tend to focus on our role as host. But we are just as often, or even mostly, visitors in the worlds in which we work
Doing the wrong thing righter
"The more efficient you are at doing the wrong thing, the wronger you become." – Russell Ackoff
Arts Management, the parts, and the whole
There is a persistent (and often productive) belief that to understand something you need to disassemble it.
March 2023
Arts Management and the cost of virtue
"We want the energy cost of virtue to be less than that of sin." – Dave Snowden
Arts Management, ownership, and control
There are essentially three ways to structure organizational ownership in most societies. Each has an impact on control, resource, and operations.
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