All Entries Tagged With: "Leadership"
Leadership By Eyebrow
Apropos my Inside the Arts co-denizen Bill Eddins post about what it takes to be a good conductor, is the TED video with Itay Talgam talking about the conducting styles of six great 20th century conductors. Talgam approaches the leadership styles of different conductors from the apparently stifling style of Riccardo Muti to the comparatively [...]
“Don’t Let Them Use Your Passion Against You”
I always enjoy reading Adam Thurman’s work on Mission Paradox. Recently he posted “An Open Letter to Arts Administrators.” As an arts administrator, I felt obligated to disseminate it a bit. It contains advice that, even if you have heard it before, bears hearing again to remind you of a few things. (It’s also mirrored [...]
Collective Action Report For NPAC 2008
Last week Andrew Taylor posted an entry about the release of a report for which his students were involved collecting information at and about last summer’s National Performing Arts Convention. The report examines the capacity for the arts disciplines to engage in collective action. As you might imagine, I found much of it very interesting. [...]