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Leadership
Tate Director delivers hard line on the future of museums
In this post, Gina Fairley interviews Tate Director Maria Balshaw about the current state and future of museums concerning gender equity, the ways that museums can effectively connect with …
Museums have a duty to be political
In this article, Jillian Steinhauer shares the story of the departure of the former director of the Queens Museum in New York, Laura Raicovich, and discusses the need for museums to adopt …
A Woman Who Is a Rare Find Among Museum Leaders
Laurens des Cars, the recently appointed female director of Musee d’Orsay, reflects on her career trajectory and the challenges and opportunities for women leaders in the …
Do museum directors need curatorial experience?
What skills does it take to run a top museum? As many museums look towards increasing their outreach to new audiences and are facing challenges to their long-term financial sustainability, …
Leadership, and Why You Need a SWOT Analysis (and a Personal Board of Directors)
Recently, I was poking around on LinkedIn, and found a couple of short posts that caught my attention. One was How to Do a SWOT Analysis on Yourself (and Why You Need One) by speaker, …
American Alliance of Museums Honors National Museum of African American History and Culture With Chair’s Leadership Award
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE May 1, 2017 Arlington, VA–The American Alliance of Museums (AAM), the only organization representing the entire scope of the museum community, announced today that it …
Museum Leadership, Organizational Readiness, and Institutional Transformation
This case study was a part of a series on museum leadership, developed for the career and leader-ship management workshop for participants in the International Program, held at the AAM …
Museum Directors on Mentorship and Their Professional Journey
This article originally appeared in the March/April edition of Museum magazine. All museum directors started off as young people trying to find their way. Recently, in a series of …
Museum Leadership, Organizational Readiness, and Institutional Transformation
This article originally appeared in the March/April 2017 edition of Museum magazine. This case study was a part of a series on museum leadership, developed for the career and leadership …
Reflections on AAM’s Board Diversity Training
Laura Lott is the President and CEO of the American Alliance of Museums. As I have spoken and blogged about for the past year, I learned A LOT in just a few days at the 2016 Forum on …
Leadership: The Self-Aware Museum Leader
Leadership experts and museum colleagues address the links between self-awareness and successful leadership, in addition to the connections between self-aware leadership and organization…
Museum Leadership and Growing Enormous Pumpkins
When I was a kid my dad got interested in growing big pumpkins—the kind that require several people or a forklift to pick up. To grow enormous pumpkins you need good seeds and soil, but the …