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Confusing the pitch with the plan
Your strategic thinking needs to pick a lane.
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Composing your day to fit your rhythm
Your body has a rise and fall throughout the day. Dance with it.

August 2024

Does your team flourish? Or just your audience?
Arts organizations often celebrate their role in flourishing communities. But are your workers included in that work?
Arts Management and the ampersand
Your most impactful purpose and process in managing the arts is to connect.
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What difference do you make?
Two roads to discover how your arts organization changes the world.
Find your superfans
Two questions to identify your most passionate and productive audience members.

July 2024

The beautiful budget, revisited
It may look buttoned-up and boring, but a budget is a complex work of human expression worthy of creative attention.
Hosting, guesting, and ghosting
Arts managers strive to be gracious hosts. But we are just as often, or even mostly, guests.
Competing ends in arts management
Holding space for creative inquiry while crafting flows of reliable revenue is a central tension in the business of art.
Ambition, capacity, and context
Arts organizations don't act in or on their environment, they act WITH it.
The job description multiverse
"So, what do you do?" is a trickier question than you might imagine (or prescribe, or disclose, or actually demonstrate).

June 2024

Reshaping your business model
The world is always changing. The assumptions behind your business model need to change with it.
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