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Leadership matters blog post by Anne Ackerson and Joan Baldwin

I feel very privileged to have been included in a few blog posts on the Blog site leadership matters which looks at gender equality in leadership roles in museums.  Anne Ackerson and Joan Bald

Leadership at the Boston Children's Museum

Here are two short video’s — one on Mike Spock’s leadership style and one on being the boss of the Visitor Center at the Boston Children’s Museum between 1970-1987.  Both accurately reflect m

ANSWERS TO THE CONSULTANTS ROLE FOR MUSEUM NEWS

The bi-lawys of AAM and the practices regardling consultants did not reflect the changing world of work when I became a consultant in 1993.  And having been an official in the AAM when salarie

AN INTRODUCTION TO A "WORLD OF MUSEUM WORK" BOOK THAT NEVER HAPPENED (2008)

In 2008, a group of us considered writing a book about the changing nature of museum work.  The Museum Group of which I was (and still am) a member thought about book publication as a useful a

THE ROLE OF THE CONSULTANT 1999 A SPEECH AT AAM

In 1999 I was asked to be on a panel in AAM about consultants.  This is a short speech which accompanies a power point about the usefulness of consultants for directors and about the different

RUMINATIONS ON COMPANY CULTURE 2002

In 2002 I was invited to speak at the UK Museums Association held in Leicester and chose to speak about directors and creative thinking.  I have written quite a number of pape

1985 EDCOM AWARD, ABOUT MUSEUM EDUCATOR POLITICS

In 1985 I won the Museum Educator’s award for excellence.  I gave this paper (which is uploaded in typewriter font because it was typed).  The paper is about the educator’s need to partic

The ART MUSEUM AS EDUCATOR a discussion of he Client Centered Structure of the Children's Museum, Boston

Council on Museums and Education in the Visual Arts., Barbara Y. Newsom, and Adele Z. Silver. The Art Museum as Educator : A Collection of Studies as Guides to Practice and Policy.

Taxonomies Power Point

This powerpoint is about multiple theories aka as taxonomies.  It hopefully allows the reader to connect with multiple ideas and understand that museums are complex places that deserve multipl

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