Major Life Changes
Major transitions in life – geographical moves, job changes, key life milestones, and even personnel changes – cause upheaval, if not outright anxiety. They come with tremendous amounts of uncertainty, and although we occasionally thrive in uncertain situations (adrenalin and […]
Because Nice (Still) Matters
I am the opposite of a hoarder. I purge clutter with reckless abandon, assuming most of it is garbage (recyclable garbage, but garbage nonetheless). And most of it is. But sometimes something sticks with me. I can’t entirely explain […]
It’s About Time!
It sounds like such a harsh title doesn’t it? We don’t mean it in terms of exasperated finality. We literally mean this post is about time. We have been talking and thinking about time quite a lot lately. We’ve […]
Bad Habits of Arts Organizations (Second in a Series)
In our first post in this three-part series, we talked about the first bad habit we see in arts organizations: The failure to connect expending limited resources to strategic mission. (Lolly Daskal’s article from Inc., “8 Deadly Ways to Kill […]
Online? Really?
Can you really learn online? What about all I’ve read about the massive failure of MOOCs? Will this be a waste of my money — even though it isn’t all that much? And if it were really good, wouldn’t you […]
June 2015 Tasks
How is it June already?!? We’re one (unofficial) week into summer and I am supposed to be fully rejuvenated by now. (Get it? Re-JUNE-venated?) Except that it’s not going well. Where did May go? For that matter, where did […]