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Aug 23, 2021
4 min

Workplace Humility 101

butupa - https://www.flickr.com/photos/25792994@N04/5299579966/in/photolisthttps://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=76241951 Have...

Aug 16, 2021
4 min

How Being a Lone Ranger Demands a Different Set of Skills

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Aug 9, 2021
3 min

Taking Grief to Work 2.0

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Jul 19, 2021
4 min

Matchmaker, Matchmaker, Find Me a Match: What We Mean When We Talk About Mentoring

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Jul 12, 2021
4 min

People Don't Change: How to Fix the Team, Not the Person

Coastal Elite from Halifax, Canada - Lucy Van Pelt's psychiatry booth, CC BY-SA 2.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=7859...

Jun 28, 2021
4 min

Ending a Program? Two Thoughts: Communication and Also Communication

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Jun 21, 2021
2 min

Collective Wisdom: 13 Pieces of Advice I Wish I'd Had

Tommy Wong - https://www.flickr.com/photos/gracewong/295382746/, CC BY 2.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=85227644 Last...

Jun 14, 2021
3 min

What a Moment of Grace Teaches Us

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Jun 7, 2021
3 min

Aging and the Museum Workforce: Turning the Lens Inward

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Jun 1, 2021
5 min

The George Floyd Anniversary: The Need to Re-center and Learn to be the Unintended Audience

Searching for Slavery Class on the Cesar Family's former property, Sharon, CT. Photo Courtesy of Rhonan Mokriski Sometimes, when we allow...

May 24, 2021
4 min

Is Lack of Self-Care Another Form of Scarcity Mindset?

Sks811, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=22767515 How many of us know a museum where the mantra--even in...

May 17, 2021
4 min

The Leadership Agenda: Plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose

Photokid261, www.sunkiddance.de - Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=37691522 It is more than a...

May 10, 2021
4 min

Performance and Productivity: Is Your Process Outdated?

Lewis G P - http://media.iwm.org.uk/iwm/mediaLib//39/media-39385/large.jpgThis is photograph Q 28232 from the collections of the Imperial...

May 3, 2021
3 min

The Practice of Gratitude

Ashashyou - Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=45146041 This year my team participated in a series...

Apr 26, 2021
5 min

The Salary Debate: Money, Meaning and Politics

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Apr 19, 2021
5 min

A Twofer: AAM's COVID Data and Job Descriptions As Road Maps

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Apr 12, 2021
5 min

Covid, Crying and Thoughts on Hiring

fiedler, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=58670503 This first part is mainly for women who read this blog....