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Management

Reframing Negotiation

Shirli Kopelman, professor of management at the Ross School of Business at the University of Michigan, suggests that negotiation shouldn’t be a “winner take all” experience.

Leadership

Why we do it

And why you should too. When you’ve been around for as long as we have,…

Leadership

4 Questions to Ask Yourself When Considering a Continuing Education Program

Should I go to graduate school? Is there an online program I can do while…

Community & Collaboration

An Invitation To Community: Being Yourself

In our last post of this series on community, Jordan Reeves shares his moving reflections…

Community & Collaboration

Join the Party!

Ready to dance? Taneisha Duggan shares her reflections on the power of community and invites…

Community & Collaboration

The Fable of One Turtle and Four Humans: A Story of Community

How did the turtle cross the road? The answer according to Greg Milo: thanks to…

Community & Collaboration

Growing Together

Laura Gisler shares a beautiful meditation on what community means to her through these drawings…

Community & Collaboration

The World Is Your Classroom (Or Gym)

Naomi Even-Aberle introduces us to her community: her gym. She shares how impactful it can…

Community & Collaboration

Part of Something Bigger

Jaclyn Roessel reflects on the first time she felt like a part of a community, when she was 12 years old and had her Kinaaldá ceremony, in which she became a woman and felt the kinship of not only her nuclear family, but a larger tapestry of community members.

Community & Collaboration

A Real Community Will Stretch You

What are the qualities of a rubber band? Flexibility: the ability to bend without breaking.…

Community & Collaboration

Finding Magic In Community

Sometimes joining a new community can open up new, magical worlds that you never…

Innovation

I know you won’t judge me

Dearest Sanctuaries, I deeply appreciate the love, compassion, and care with which you treat me.…

Innovation

You’re the best

Dear Arts Wisconsin, I’m writing this letter to let you know that I love you.…

Innovation

I am still feeling the same glow

A patron, artist, writer and poet shares: Dear Carrack Gallery, I’d like to thank…

Innovation

Dear, Bench Diary

“Welcome to my backyard! It’s the funniest thing just before I sat down I…

Innovation

Love, Hate & Design Research

There are some very successful design researchers who routinely ask customers to write love notes or break up notes to their brands. This creative and fun approach can (often unwittingly) get powerful insight into the perceptions of customers.

Leadership

Winter is Coming: What the Culture Sector Needs to Worry About Now

I. Predicting the Unpredictable The former NEA Chair Rocco Landesman says he doesn’t see anything…

Community & Collaboration

Community of place

The root of this definition for me is community of place, because it is in…

Community & Collaboration

Liberty

In Todd, NC in the month of June, community means preparing for the annual “Liberty…

Community & Collaboration

The duty of community

This comes from one of the greatest men of the 20th century, a personal role…

Community & Collaboration

Community is natural. But we’re losing it.

We talk about community a lot. The word gets thrown around so much that it…

Community & Collaboration

Community: A Poem

Community is beautifully imperfect. Community is acceptance, not tolerance. Community is the past, present, and…

Community & Collaboration

A practice of commitment

I’ve been noticing a trend that many of my friends and colleagues will, after having…

Community & Collaboration

Community within

It signifies change that helps individuals to visually express feelings and emotions, which are difficult…

Community & Collaboration

A misshapen Venn Diagram

Erin Salazar, an artist, muralist, seamstress, public art curator and Creative Community Fellow, shares what community means to her in this time lapse video.

Community & Collaboration

Actively making a place better

The Reformed Protestant congregation hung 49 rainbow flags along the railing of the church in…

Community & Collaboration

Another word

Our community was one of interest and history and the rural/urban exchange informed nearly all…

Community & Collaboration

It’s about passion

To me, to be part of these communities meant your pretty standard definition of “community.”…

Community & Collaboration

Community: A Song

Torres Hodges, a musician and Creative Community Fellow describes what community means to him in an original song.

Community & Collaboration

On Community

. When my grandmother’s twinkly eyes and warm, welcoming disposition disappeared along with her memories due…

Community & Collaboration

Complexities that make us whole

Community, as a singular plurality, encompasses the people who, and places that I endear and…

Community & Collaboration

What’s in your box?

Many arts organizations and artists have started these community supported art programs to showcase and support…

Community & Collaboration

Teamwork makes the dream work

Some more open than others. Some with multiple communities inside of one another. Some where…

Community & Collaboration

Rural communities and the artists strengthening them

Be sure to travel to the many resources mentioned in the post and comments. Are…

Community & Collaboration

You Need a Community, Not a Network

An HBR article on the importance of strong leadership in guiding community building and the amazing things that can happen when a network transforms into a community.

Community & Collaboration

The Art of Attachment

ArtPlace America also defines ‘community’ as inherently place-based in their 4 principles of successful creative…

Community & Collaboration

Near, Far, Wherever You Are

Locality? Your Youtube Cat Video Appreciation community might have something to say about that. Distance…

Community & Collaboration

Choosing the path

The question of whether the arts can truly contribute to community building is still widely…

Community & Collaboration

Arts as Ends, Means, and Everything In Between

In this article, Lyz Crane, Deputy Director of ArtPlace America, dives into the field of arts-based community development – from the practitioner and researcher point of view.

Community & Collaboration

Why The Arts?

Creative Community Fellows alumna, Jess Solomon and artist and director of Art at Work, Marty Pottenger, reflect on the increase of artists who work within communities, and on the unique role that art can play in strengthening and supporting communities.

Community & Collaboration

An Invitation

In “A Model of Identity and Community“, David Pollard shares consultant Aaron Williamson’s definition of…

Community & Collaboration

Communities, Complexities, and Commonalities

They also point out the complex nature of communities: “When a funder or evaluator looks…

Community & Collaboration

Welcome.

We went together. For moral support. We knew nothing about suits. A gorges? What’s that.…

Community & Collaboration

Civic Health. Civic Equity. Civic Capacity.

Michael Rohd shares the values that guide both organizations: Civic Health. Civic Equity. Civic Capacity.

Community & Collaboration

On Values & Building Community

Inclusivity. Creativity & Innovation. Integrity. These are the values that drive Irfana Jetha Noorani work with the 11th Street Bridge Park.

Community & Collaboration

Scott Kratz: Values

Intentionality, generosity and authenticity. These are the values Scott Kratz brings to the 11th Street Bridge Park.

Innovation

The Importance of Play

Embracing failure is something I’ve worked very hard on in my life. When I first…

Innovation

The Weight of Failure

During 20 years of employment in organizations and companies, I rarely experienced failure to a…

Innovation

Failure is an Option?

When conducting recent audience research with colleagues last year, we were stricken to hear from…

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