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Top 10 posts of 2024

Why artists confuse economists

GenAI and the GPS problem

The 100th Field Note

The strategy screen

Be thankful, be thanked

Many hats make difficult work

Spheres of influence

What "work" does an arts experience do?

Minimizing the board

The cost of revenue

Making "the artful ask"

The temporary venture

Means, ends, and OpenAI

Measuring what matters

Four types of artist

Confusing the pitch with the plan

Composing your day to fit your rhythm

Does your team flourish? Or just your audience?

Arts Management and the ampersand

What difference do you make?

Find your superfans

The beautiful budget, revisited

Hosting, guesting, and ghosting

Competing ends in arts management

Ambition, capacity, and context

The job description multiverse

Reshaping your business model

Flipping the financial script

The trouble with market research

Minimum viable process

The rollercoaster of cash flow

Two paths to better places

Ten Functions of Arts Management

Auditing the visitor experience

Audience or algorithm, which do you serve?

Standards of care

Making things that matter

The ten functions of Arts Management

To see a world in (five grains) of sand

One revenue to rule them all

Turf, trust, and time

Sunsetting a nonprofit

Where board and staff collide

Contracts and covenants

What the heck is capital?

Defining and delivering value

The winding path to mastery

Six pillars of artist support

Managing messes

Navigating high-conflict personalities

Business in service of beauty

Why boards get bored

Growing by guessing in 2024