Leadership

Leadership: The Self-Aware Museum Leader

By American Alliance of Museums

Leadership experts and museum colleagues address the links between self-awareness and successful leadership, in addition to the connections between self-aware leadership and organization…
Museum Leadership and Growing Enormous Pumpkins

By Trevor Jones

When I was a kid my dad got interested in growing big pumpkins—the kind that require several people or a forklift to pick up. To grow enormous pumpkins you need good seeds and soil, but the real key is to pinch off almost all of the …
The LMN Roving Reporter

By Christine Jeffers

You never know where Executive Director Christine Jeffers will pop up and seek the answers to the most pressing questions for museum leaders today. Keep an eye out, you might be next! I recently asked Executive Director Karen Kienzle of …
Leadership At All Levels

By Elizabeth S. Pena

This article originally appeared in the May/June 2012 edition of Museum magazine. An excerpt from A Life in Museums: Managing Your Museum Career, edited by Greg Stevens and Wendy Luke, The AAM Press, April 2012. When we think about museum …

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