Learning how you learn
What do you do when you don't know what to do?
“Remember how you didn’t fall yesterday
even though you thought you would?
Life can be like that all the time if you
let it.”
—Gabrielle Calvocoressi, from “Karma Affirmation Cistern…”
Across my three decades of teaching, research, writing, consulting, and practice, I’ve been called to the same trajectory: seeking out and serving people on the journey to mastery in Arts Management.
In my day job as faculty and director of Arts Management graduate programs at American University, the “seeking out” is straightforward: graduate applicants who have noticed and named a gap in their skills, networks, or capacity knock on our door. But in my other work – the ArtsManaged Field Guide, these weekly Field Notes, my YouTube channel – I’ve tried to reach beyond the straightforward, and find people in any and every corner of the work.
Please complete this short, five-question survey
to capture a current challenge and how you’re addressing it.
To focus this search and service, and to develop a next chapter, I’m curious to find anyone and everyone that meets these “earlyvangelist” criteria suggested by entrepreneur maven Steve Blank:
You have a problem or challenge in your arts management practice;
You understand that you have a problem – you haven’t just noticed it vaguely but named it directly;
You are actively searching for a solution and have a timetable for finding it;
The problem is painful enough that you have cobbled together an interim solution.
In short, I’m curious to know the names you give your current arts management challenges, and how you’ve activated your attention or efforts to address them.
If you’re willing to share, please take a few minutes to complete this short, five-question survey to help me craft a better path. The survey is anonymous unless you choose otherwise. And your answers will help me build what’s next.
From the ArtsManaged Field Guide
Function of the Week: People Operations
People Operations involves designing and driving systems and practices that attract, engage, retain, and develop people within the enterprise (also called human resources).
Framework of the Week: Adaequatio (Adequateness)
Adaequatio is a concept by E.F. Schumacher that says we can only understand something if we have the right abilities to do so. The understanding of the knower must be adequate to the thing to be known.
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