What's Working and Must Work Presentation Resources

Today marks my presentation during the What’s Working and Must Work session from the 2012 Orchestra Summit and odds are, quite a few of today’s visitors are looking for the resource content being referenced in the presentation. So without further adieu, here’s everything you need:

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What’s Working and Must Work Presentation Resources

Today marks my presentation during the What’s Working and Must Work session from the 2012 Orchestra Summit and odds are, quite a few of today’s visitors are looking for the resource content being referenced in the presentation. So without further adieu, here’s everything you need:

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What The Other Side Gets Right

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Amidst the backdrop of increasingly partisan politics and some of the lowest Federal government approval ratings in history, Thomas B. Edsall published a pair of opinion articles in the New York Times where he asked key figures among conservatives and liberals what they thought the other side “got right.” The results were captivating in that although Edsall notes liberals and conservatives did not always share the same degree of enthusiasm when …

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Off To The 2012 Orchestra Summit

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The 2012 Orchestra Summit at the University of Michigan kicks off this evening and sessions begin in earnest tomorrow and run through Friday. I’ll be participating in the What’s Working and Must Work session from 10:50am-12:00 noon ET on Friday with a presentation and discussion on the project previewed here at the beginning of the month. The project consisted of asking a cross section of managers, board members, and musicians to answer …

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Nonprofit Ethics In Academia

In an effort to expand on last week’s Ethics and Internal Culture article, it seemed reasonable to consider how the issue of executive ethics is addressed within the field of arts administration degree programs. And if you need some insight from that corner of the business, one of the best sources is Andrew Taylor; Director of the Bolz Center for Arts Administration, an MBA degree program and learning center in the Wisconsin School of Business.

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