2017 – Page 25 – American Alliance of Museums

Museum Leadership, Organizational Readiness, and Institutional Transformation

By Marsha Semmel

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 Annual Meeting & MuseumExpo in May, 2016. This …
Museum Directors on Mentorship and Their Professional Journeys

By Michael E. Shapiro

All museum directors started off as young people trying to find their way. Recently, in a series of interviews conducted for the book Eleven Museums / Eleven Directors: Conversations on Art & Leadership, art museum directors spoke …
Museum Directors on Mentorship and Their Professional Journey

By Michael E. Shapiro

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 interviews conducted for the book Eleven Museums/ Eleven …
Strategizing Me: Make a Personal Career Plan

By Anne W. Ackerson

This article appeared in the March/April 2017 issue of Museum magazine. Effective leaders create mission statements to shape their museum careers. The one thing that can be said universally about people who work in the museum profession …
Museum Leadership, Organizational Readiness, and Institutional Transformation

By Marsha Semmel

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 management workshop for participants in the …
Failing Towards Success

By Elizabeth Merritt

This excerpt from TrendsWatch 2017 originally appeared in the March/April 2017 issue of Museum magazine. “If you’re creating things, you’re doing things that have a high potential for failure, especially if you’re …
Introducing TrendsWatch 2017

By Elizabeth Merritt

It’s TrendsWatchtime! Those of you who know to keep an eye on the CFM page at this time of year may have noticed that this year’s issue quietly made an appearance on the Alliance web site last Friday. You can download your free PDF copy …
Shining a Light on the Past and the Future: Interview with Dr. Donald Suggs

By Local Host Committee

“Institutions play a role in shining a light on the past and the future. They challenge us and give us a deep understanding of how we came to be; they also help us see what’s important to change if we’re going to have a more successful …
Inside Scoop: Museum Professionals Recommend St. Louis’ Best Eats

By Local Host Committee

The Annual Meeting in St. Louis is right around the corner (May 7-10). Let’s start exploring the Gateway City. With some of the most innovative and diverse restaurants in the Midwest, St. Louis is quickly becoming known for its food …
Monday Message to CFM’s Followers

By Elizabeth Merritt

Happy Monday, peeps. We’ve quietly “soft launched” this year’s TrendsWatch report on the Alliance web site. I’ll be posting a longer introduction later this week, but I wanted to send this early …