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Museum 2.0 Rerun: I Am An Elitist Jerk

Museum 2.0

It’s an experience that requires permits, maps, physical ability, gear—a long list of barriers to entry. They are the great big public, and giving them comfort and access makes national parks a valid and worthwhile alternative to theme parks and resorts. In the Tetons, I had a highly exclusive, hard to access, fabulous experience.

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What I Learned on My Summer Vacation

Museum 2.0

It’s an experience that requires permits, maps, physical ability, gear—a long list of barriers to entry. They are the great big public, and giving them comfort and access makes national parks a valid and worthwhile alternative to theme parks and resorts. In the Tetons, I had a highly exclusive, hard to access, fabulous experience.

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Notes from the Future: Reflections on the IMLS Meeting on Museums and Libraries in the 21st Century

Museum 2.0

Some leaders are more conservative than I feared, and these people are alternately smug and desperate about maintaining their power. Unfortunately, for some directors, “sustainability” means “finding long-term ways to receive funding to do the same things we’ve been doing.” Meetings about the future end up being about the present.

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Executive management in hard times - Retrenchment, reflection, transition, recovery

ASU Lodestar Center

But, the forward-looking executive will recognize that the successful and sustainable organizations of the future will be those that are organized and positioned for adaptability and innovation in a marketplace of changing needs, attitudes, preferences, and points of access and that are willing to make structural adaptations to meet new realities.