Showing posts with label Leadership think tank Americans for the arts. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Leadership think tank Americans for the arts. Show all posts

July 23, 2007

Setting the Scene

A reflection on the leadership think tank...

Title: 10 Animated People
Players: 10 arst and culture management professionals from around the country (one from London). Some are consultants, a couple are administrators and several run management service programs. This is a mix of emerging, midcareer and seasoned professionals.

Audience: 7 staff members and 3 graduate school students called summer scholars. These are just observers who took a pledge to not speak during the 12 hours of conversation.

Location: Meeting room in a Washington DC corporate office. Six tables are formed into a square with giant board room chairs around them.

Props: Flip charts, colored markers and bottles of water.

Objective: To determine what it means to be a leaders in arts and culture management.

Rules: Play nice, listen, be non-judgemental, follow the facilitator.

Curtain opens to reveal eighteen people sitting around a table, each in a different posture, some having side conversations and two women standing near flip charts attempting to guide the conversation.

To discover what we discussed visit my other blog http://www.careergoals.blogspot.com/.

July 17, 2007

Zooming to DC

Heading off to DC for three days to participate in the Americans for the Arts leadership think tank. I spend as much time travelling as I do in the actual meetings. Flying Wednesday, meeting Thursday and Friday, flying Saturday, return to London Sunday.

In between I am managing to see my siblings, their significant others and my folks. How's that for efficiency? Hopefully I'll be able to visit Teaism, my favorite DC tea/food shop.

Also trying a new airlines - Zoom. They just started their London/NY service and seem to have upgraded me for a portion of the flight. We stop over in Bermuda which, frankly, is the highlight for me. Let's hope we don't get lost in the Bermuda Triangle. Hopefully I can get off the plain and check out the airport shops.