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Pillars of a creative community
Six ways to make a place hospitable to artists
 • E. Andrew Taylor
GenAI, the unreliable narrator
Large language models offer compelling content, but demand active and skeptical readers
 • E. Andrew Taylor
Collaboration is a continuum
Playing well with other organizations requires growing trust and shrinking turf
 • E. Andrew Taylor
Taming the workplace hive mind
Six ways to boost the signal and mute the noise in your team communications
 • E. Andrew Taylor
The curious clustering of human groups
We gather together in particular and consistent numbers. How might that inform arts management practice?
 • E. Andrew Taylor
Effort and effect
Two ways to evaluate performance
 • E. Andrew Taylor
Simple sabotage
Your management practices and processes may be derailing your mission.
 • E. Andrew Taylor
The line(s) between board and staff
Some nonprofit boards rubber stamp, others micromanage. How do you find the sweet spot in between?
 • E. Andrew Taylor
What if you're getting better at the wrong thing?
"The more efficient you are at doing the wrong thing, the wronger you become." – Russell Ackoff
 • E. Andrew Taylor
Arts management as practice
Management isn't a theory, it's an evolving repertory of embodied expertise.
Minimum viable everything
Getting better as an arts organization doesn't always (or even often) mean getting bigger.
 • E. Andrew Taylor
The rise and stall of the nonprofit arts
The modern arts nonprofit evolved in an ecology of growth. It's time to evolve again.
 • E. Andrew Taylor
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