NAS Director, Dallas Shelby, shares a process that arts and culture organizations can use to define the value they want to create in their communities.
We can’t have a conversation about values without mentioning Zappos. They’re one of our favorite examples.…
An Ideation Summit is a process that transforms stakeholders with divergent interests into collaborators. It…
Clayton Christensen eloquently takes the conventional business idea of marginal thinking and applies it to personal…
Think about the folks in your community. Think about what they will do tonight. There…
You cannot talk about arts advocacy without bringing up the instrumental value of the arts.…
Mikel Ellcessor introduces the concept of Cultural Fluency as a means for establishing genuine community connections.
We prepared a report that documents the ideas generated and some of the materials used to help participants frame the issues and work on the solutions at our Summit at Sundance.
Editor’s Note: With “Comments We Can’t Ignore,” we addressed the need to more effectively demonstrate the…
This week, a guest column by Robert Reich entitled “What ‘charity’ should really mean” appeared on the Christian…
Recently I was cleaning my closet and came across several items that no longer fit…
Last January, at NAS’ Chief Executive Program convening The New Nature of Relevance, I listened…
I’ve found myself thinking about three challenges in strategic planning that we see in our work, and I wanted to release these thoughts into the wild and see what happens.
Editor’s note: As part of our online discussion around The Summit at Sundance, we have invited…
This post was originally part of a weeklong exploration of four major issues facing the…
The recent flurry of articles around the “failure” of the creative class to save our…
There is a question we get all the time in our Strategic Marketing seminar: should…
We introduced Field Notes as a means of amplifying meaningful conversation. Over the last couple…
Dr. Gary Vikan, former Director of The Walters Art Museum, discusses how neuroscience, evolutionary biology and the cave paintings in Lascaux might point to the fact that aesthetics is “hard-wired into our heads.”
Dr. Gary Vikan, former Director of The Walters Art Museum, talks about the dangers of using economic impact as argument for the arts, the importance of articulating the intrinsic nature of the art experience and how neuroscience might unlock the mystery of that experience.
Editor’s Note: This is one of a series of posts from guest bloggers discussing topics…
Deirdre Prins-Solani, an independent heritage and cultural expert in South Africa and Salzburg Global Forum for Young Cultural Leaders faculty member, talks about the interaction between the sacred and public spaces and how that tension creates value.
Editor’s Note: This is one of a series of posts from guest bloggers discussing topics…
NAS President and CEO Russell Willis Taylor recently delivered the keynote address to attendees of…
In October 2011, three senior arts and education practitioners brought together 40 participants from 15 organizations in the UK to address practical and effective ways to strengthen the real value of the arts, thereby sustaining their varied revenue streams.
We’ve all heard about the TED videos, but there’s also a section of the TED…
We recently announced a new pricing model for Business of Arts and Culture seminars in…
Baseball fans have taken to throwing back home runs hit by the opposing team, a practice this author decries as “the worst tradition in baseball.” This article on the trend made me think about one of the challenges we face every day in arts and culture.
In this video interview on Rethinking Capitalism, Michael Porter (of Porter’s Five Forces fame, among…
This piece from last week’s Marketplace is good food for thought given the increasing competition for audiences’ time and money.
These survey results show that influence (particularly online) has less to do with the size of your audience and more to do with the value of the content you are providing
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